Manitoba RCMP have arrested two suspects in connection with a shooting, assault and robbery in Pukatawagan.
Mounties posted on X just before 7:30 p.m. Tuesday that a 17-year-old and a 22-year-old who were wanted were arrested without incident.
On Friday at 1:05 a.m., officers received reports that someone had been shot at a home on Crow Rock Drive.
Attending officers found a 16-year-old boy with a shotgun wound. He was taken to the nursing station.
Police say the investigation determined that a teenage boy had come to the home on a snowmobile. The victim was outside with the two suspects when several shots were fired by the 17-year-old and the victim was struck.
The victim was taken to a Winnipeg hospital, where he currently remains.
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Shortly after, at 3:05 a.m., police became aware of an assault in the community. A 19-year-old woman was physically assaulted, resulting in minor injuries.
At around 7:45 p.m. that day, police heard word of a robbery with a firearm at a business on Amisk Drive. Police say a 12-year-old boy was outside the business on his snowmobile when a man pointed a gun at him and told him to get off the snowmobile. The man then took the property and fled.
The 12-year-old was not harmed and the snowmobile was found a short distance away from the business.
Police say the investigation determined the suspects as a 17-year-old boy and 22-year-old Bowden Nicholas.
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