A Winnipeg man has been charged with second-degree murder in connection with the death of a Winnipeg woman on Saturday night.
The victim, Tessa Perry, 31, was taken to the hospital in critical condition after being assaulted in the Maples neighbourhood. She later died of her injuries.
Police responded to reports of an assault on Marlow Court near Inkster Boulevard on Saturday around 10 p.m., they said in a news release on Sunday.
The police found Perry unconscious and suffering from upper-body injuries.
Perry is Winnipeg’s 23rd homicide victim of 2022, and the third Indigenous woman to be killed in the city in three weeks.
The Winnipeg Police Service investigation into the alleged homicide in the Maples neighbourhood continues. (Walther Bernal/CBC)
On May 16, Rebecca Contois, 24, was found dead in North Kildonan. On May 19, Doris Trout, 25, was found deceased in an apartment lobby on Kennedy Avenue in downtown Winnipeg.
Justin Alfred Robinson, 29, has been charged with second-degree murder in connection to Perry and failure to comply with a probation order.
The investigation is ongoing.
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