Winnipeg Police Inspector Sean Pike offers an replace on the continued murder investigation in Winnipeg, Manitoba Thursday, December 1, 2022.
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Winnipeg Police Inspector Sean Pike offers an replace on the continued murder investigation in Winnipeg, Manitoba Thursday, December 1, 2022.
John Woods/AP
WINNIPEG, Manitoba. On Thursday, police mentioned a Canadian man beforehand accused of killing an Indigenous lady additionally killed three different ladies, two of whom have been additionally confirmed to be Indigenous and one suspected.
Jeremy Skibicki was charged Might 18 and held in custody after the partial stays of 24-year-old Rebecca Contua have been present in a trash can close to an house constructing. Kontua lived in Winnipeg however was a member of the O-Chi-Chak-Ko-Sipi First Nation, also referred to as Crane River.
Police on the time mentioned they weren’t ruling out extra victims. They mentioned Thursday that Skibicki is now charged with first-degree homicide for 3 different deaths in the identical quick interval within the spring.
Police mentioned Morgan Beatrice Harris, 39, and Marcedes Miran, 26, have been killed within the first week of Might. Each ladies lived in Winnipeg and have been members of the Lengthy Plain First Nations.
Police mentioned a fourth lady, unknown however believed to be indigenous, was allegedly killed on or about March 15 final yr. They posted a photograph of a jacket much like the one she was sporting.
“It is at all times alarming when there’s any kind of serial killing happening,” Winnipeg Police Chief Danny Smith mentioned. “It does contain indigenous ladies. We’re very delicate to the whole investigation and investigation into lacking and murdered Indigenous ladies and the suggestions that movement from that.”
The police launched just a few particulars about their investigation, however mentioned that they had no leads on different potential victims.
“I don’t know in the event that they have been particularly persecuted, however clearly all of the victims on this are indigenous ladies,” Smith mentioned.
Smith mentioned authorities didn’t discover the our bodies of the opposite three victims, however mentioned that they had sufficient proof to cost Skibicki with first-degree homicide.
He declined to provide particulars because the investigation continues to be ongoing.
“We nonetheless have quite a lot of work to do to guard the lives of Indigenous ladies and ladies,” Winnipeg Mayor Scott Gillingham mentioned.
“Too many individuals are actually affected by homelessness, habit and poverty, and this places him in a weak place.”
