Winnipeg police identify 4 victims of West Broadway mass shooting
Winnipeg police have identified the four people killed in a shooting in the city's West Broadway neighbourhood that happened early Sunday morning.
Crystal Shannon Beardy, 34, Stephanie Amanda Beardy, 33, Melelek Leseri Lesikel, 29, and Dylan Maxwell Lavalee, 41, died after being shot on Langside Street, police said Monday in a news release.
Crystal and Stephanie Beardy were sisters, their mother Beverly Beardy has confirmed to CBC News.
Crystal, a mother of two boys, died at the scene, while Stephanie, a mother of two girls, died in hospital last night after being taken off life support, her family said.
A forensics unit van and police officers remain Monday morning at the site of a deadly mass shooting in Winnipeg's West Broadway neighbourhood. (Anne-Louise Michel/CBC)
A 55-year-old man who was also shot remains in hospital in critical condition, police said.
Suspect still at large
No arrests have been made at this point and no suspects have been identified, Winnipeg police Chief Danny Smyth said at Monday's news conference.
"This is a dangerous offender, in my view, and we must do everything that we can to identify that person and take them into custody," he said.
Police are also trying to determine if there was more than one shooter, Smyth said.
Smyth said the shooting happened in a unit of a multi-suite dwelling, but that he couldn't say why the five victims were in the home together.
Beyond that, he said he couldn't give other details because police are still in the early stages of their investigation.
"I don't even know what happened in the suite yet; I will let the investigators do their thing."
Police were called about multiple injuries on the Langside Street south of Sara Avenue just after 4 a.m. Sunday.
Crystal Beardy and one of the men were pronounced dead at the scene. The other three were rushed to hospital in critical condition, where another man and Stephanie Beardy died.
Police were still at the scene Monday morning, with a large white forensics unit van parked along Langside Street.
They could be there for up to a week as they continue their investigation, Smyth said.
