Two Winnipeg males are in custody after an assault police are describing as a “critical assault with a hatchet-type weapon” through the theft of a motorbike Wednesday afternoon.
Police mentioned they had been referred to as to the five hundred block of Sherbrook Avenue simply after 2:30 p.m. after receiving reviews from a number of folks a couple of man being assaulted by a weapon that was described as a hammer or an axe.
The sufferer, a person in his 20s, was taken to hospital in important situation.
Police mentioned they took two suspects into custody after a brief foot chase. The stolen bike was recovered, and the person has been upgraded to secure situation.
The suspects, 32 and 25, are going through a raft of fees, from theft, to aggravated assault, to failing to adjust to a launch order and weapons fees.
Const. Jay Murray mentioned a brazen daylight incident like that is “horrifying.”
“I feel lots of people assume one of these crime solely occurs below the quilt of darkness, however the actuality is it may occur at any time,” he mentioned.
“Thankfully, on this case, there have been lots of people who witnessed this assault, lots of people who had been capable of help officers, so it resulted in a fast arrest.”
Murray mentioned there’s some indication that the suspects and sufferer could have recognized one another, however the investigation remains to be making an attempt to find out what that connection is.
“We don’t consider it’s a totally random occasion, however definitely I wouldn’t take into account them shut by any means. We’re nonetheless making an attempt to work out what that relationship was.”
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