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Police tight-lipped on Portage Avenue homicide details

Police say a woman stabbed a man to death outside this Portage Avenue apartment block on Friday night. Josh Arason / Global News

WINNIPEG – Police are keeping tight-lipped about a bloody homicide that happened on Friday night.

Officers and emergency crews responded after they were called about an assault at an apartment block in the 2100 block of Portage Avenue.

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Three people were taken to hospital. A 39-year-old man later died from his injuries, the city’s 23rd homicide of the year.

A witness who lives in the apartment block said there was a man screaming for help inside the building.

A source told Global News a woman was arrested.

Police would not say on Sunday whether anyone has been arrested in connection with the homicide.

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