WINNIPEG — Police have arrested a 28-year-old man in connection to several random assaults that happened downtown on Tuesday.
The man has been charged with six counts of assault causing bodily harm and assault with a weapon among several other charges.
Police say there were seven assaults in a span of three hours in the downtown area on Tuesday. Six of the victims were female and one was a male. None of the victims suffered from life threatening injuries.
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Const. Rob Carver said there didn’t appear to be any motive for the random crimes.
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“It doesn’t look like robbery was the motive for these. So it’s not something we’ve really seen before where in a short period of time someone has done a series of these incidents,” Carver said.
The suspect remains in police custody.
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