Winnipeg police charge 32-year-old man in mass shooting that killed 4 in West Broadway
Winnipeg police have arrested and charged a 32-year-old man with second-degree murder in connection with the mass shooting that left four people dead early Sunday morning in the city's West Broadway neighbourhood, a news release says.
Jamie Randy Felix is charged with four counts of second-degree murder and one count of attempted murder, a police news release says.
He was arrested at 6:30 a.m. Friday at a home on Fernwood Avenue, Insp. Jennifer McKinnon said at a news conference shortly after 10 a.m. the same day.
A large police presence was seen in the area of Fernwood Avenue and St. Anne's Road early Friday morning, including a tactical unit vehicle.
At Friday's news conference, police said Felix had only been in custody for a few hours and they could not say if he knew the victims or why he was at the Langside home.
"That's forming part of our investigation now," said Sgt. Wade MacDonald of the homicide unit.
There was a heavy police presence outside an apartment complex near St. Anne's Road and Fernwood Avenue early Friday morning. (Meaghan Ketcheson/CBC)
Investigators will execute a number of a search warrants Friday, MacDonald said.
Crystal Shannon Beardy, 34, Stephanie Amanda Beardy, 33, Melelek Leseri Lesikel, 29, and Dylan Maxwell Lavallee, 41, died after being shot in a unit of a multi-suite dwelling on Langside Street early Sunday morning.
Sisters Stephanie and Crystal Beardy are among the victims of the mass shooting in Winnipeg's West Broadway neighbourhood early Sunday morning. (Submitted by victims' family)
Crystal Beardy and one of the men were pronounced dead at the scene. Three other people were rushed to hospital in critical condition, where another man and Stephanie Beardy died.
A 55-year-old man who was also shot is still in hospital in critical condition, police said Friday.
