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Second-degree murder charge laid as police investigate Pacific Avenue homicide

Police investigating a homicide at a home on Pacific Avenue. Arsalan Saeed/Global News

Winnipeg police have arrested and charged a man with second-degree murder in the killing of another man at a home on Pacific Avenue.

Police responded to the home just after 6 a.m. Sunday, and found 32-year-old Kelsey Traverse from Lake St. Martin First Nation dead.

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The investigation has found that the man and the accused were known to each other and became involved in an altercation at the home.

Michael George Lavallee, a 33-year-old man from Winnipeg, has been charged and is in custody.

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