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Winnipeg man charged with 2nd-degree murder in Main Street stabbing

A Winnipeg police car outside an apartment building on Main Street on Wednesday, Jan. 19, 2022. Jordan Pearn/Global News

A Winnipeg man is behind bars in connection with a fatal January stabbing, police said.

Jordan James Walton, 27, is facing a second-degree murder charge in the death of Joseph James Matthew Myran, who was seriously injured Jan. 17 at a Main Street apartment before being taken to hospital in critical condition, where he later died.

Police said the accused and the victim did not know each other when an argument took place and Myran, 36, was stabbed.

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Myran’s death marked the city’s first homicide of 2022.

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