2 teens accused of killing woman, attacking men on Monday in Winnipeg's Point Douglas area
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Two teens have been charged in connection with the death of a woman whose body was found in a Point Douglas apartment building on Monday and with two serious assaults that happened in the same area that morning, Winnipeg police say.
A 15-year-old boy was arrested on Wednesday and charged with second-degree murder in the death of Danielle Dawn Ballantyne, 36.
A Canada-wide warrant has been issued for the second teen, whose age Winnipeg Police Service spokesperson Const. Dani McKinnon would not reveal at a news conference on Thursday.
Both have also been charged with two counts of aggravated assault on two men earlier that morning.
Ballantyne, who police said is from Winnipeg, was found dead around 7 a.m. Monday in an apartment building on Jarvis Avenue near Main Street.
In the hour-and-a-half before that, police officers were also called to three different crime scenes nearby.
Around 4:30 a.m., officers found a man in his 50s with traumatic injuries in a parking lot on Main between Jarvis and Sutherland avenues, about a half block from the homicide scene.
About 30 minutes later, another injured man in his 50s was found by police in an alley two blocks south, on Main Street near the Bell Hotel.
The teens have been charged in connection with those assaults. Both victims were still in critical condition as of Thursday, McKinnon said.
She added police believe there may be other suspects involved in the first assault, and repeated that there may be other victims who have not spoken to police.
The third assault that morning happened around 5:30, when an injured man in his 50s was found in the nearby area of Logan Avenue and the Disraeli Freeway. He was taken to hospital in stable condition.
That assault is still under investigation, and no suspects have been identified yet, McKinnon said.
She said she couldn't provide details about what kind of injuries the victims had, but said none of the incidents have been identified as shootings.
Police ask anyone who has information or wants to speak to investigators to call the homicide unit at 204-986-6508 or Crime Stoppers anonymously at 204-786-8477.
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