A 19-year-old Winnipeg woman is alive after being stabbed several times by a random man.
The victim was sitting outside in the 400 block of Edmonton Street near Qu’Appelle Avenue Wednesday afternoon when a man came up to her and started an argument. He pulled a knife from his wristband, said police, and stabbed the woman several times in the upper body.
He then stole a backpack nearby, belonging to a 39-year-old man, threatened him and ran away.
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Emergency crews were called and the woman was taken to hospital in critical condition. Police said she has since been upgraded to stable.
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Officers found the man nearby and arrested him after a short foot chase.
Miguel Gerald Thomas, 26, faces charges of robbery, possessing a weapon, carrying a concealed weapon and uttering threats.
Thomas has been detained at the Winnipeg Remand Centre.
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