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A Winnipeg man is facing charges following the death of a 29-year-old.
On the morning of October 12, a pedestrian walking their dog along the Red River reported to police what they thought was a dead body. When officers arrived in the area of Churchill Drive and Hay Street at 8 a.m., they confirmed it was a deceased man and emergency crews recovered his body. The victim was a 29-year-old named Mohamed Mohiadin Ahmed.
A 21-year-old Winnipeg man is being changed with Second-Degree Murder. He was arrested on Tuesday. Police found him in a William Whyte home. He also had three additional warrants at the time of the arrest.
Brightnose-Baker was arrested at a residence in the William Whyte neighbhourhood.
Previously, police arrested and charged Jesse James Daher, 28, of Winnipeg. He is also in custody and facing a second-degree murder charge.
At shortly after 8 a.m. on Oct. 12, 2020, officers were called to the area of Churchill Drive near the Manitoba Canoe and Kayak Centre after a passerby called to report a body in the Red River.
The next day police identified the victim as Mohamed Mohiadin Ahmed. A Winnipeg Police Service officer collects a drone after it was deployed on Churchill Drive in Winnipeg after the discovery of a body in the Red River on Monday, Oct. 12, 2020. Photo by Kevin King /Winnipeg Sun
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Dwayne Louis Simard, one of the three men arrested in a weekend standoff in Winnipeg, has died in Stony Mountain prison.
Dwayne Louis Simard, one of the three men arrested in a weekend standoff in Winnipeg, has died in Stony Mountain prison.
Correctional Service Canada said Simard, 37, died on Monday, but it did not elaborate on the circumstances of his death, which is under investigation.
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Dwayne Louis Simard, 37, died in Stony Mountain prison on March 1. (Supplied / Winnipeg Police Service)
Simard had been sentenced to two years and eight months for aggravated assault, which he began serving in November 2017. He was released in early September 2019, but two weeks later breached his conditions, police said at the time.