Crime is seeping into communities in every corner of the province. Rural Manitoba, in particular, is seeing high levels of violence this year.
Due to the sensitive and/or legal subject matter of some of the content on globalnews.ca, we reserve the ability to disable comments from time to time. Teagan Rasche reports.A Portage la Prairie neighbourhood was quiet Thursday, but just days earlier, a home on Oak Bay was the scene of a targeted double homicide.,“I think any time you hear something like that happening it sends a shockwave through the community,” Portage la Prairie mayor, Sharilyn Knox, said.
“We know one of the issues with crime is drug-related and I mean there’s are drug issues in our province, across the country and we’ve seen real changes over the years as to what that means,” Knox said.This year, in the jurisdiction of Manitoba RCMP, Mounties are investigating 55 homicides — nearly double the amount of last year, which was 33.Some of the cases from this year include mass killings in Carman and McCreary and two recent cases of human remains being found on rural properties.
“Until we have a few years of data, it’s very difficult to figure out whether there’s a larger trend going on and if there’s something we can do about it or whether it’s an anomaly,” Cormier said.‘We will find you’: Head of Blood Family Mafia tops Canada’s most wanted listCanada’s Most Wanted: Central figures in Montreal’s escalating drug war top listBut it’s not just homicides that smaller Manitoba communities, like Portage la Prairie, are seeing.
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