Manitoba news: RCMP dealing with spike in homicides [Video]

Manitoba RCMP has seen a spike in homicides in 2024.

So far this year, RCMP has responded to 56 homicides, nearly doubling the 33 it responded to in 2023.

“It’s concerning to us,” said Supt. Rob Lasson with the Manitoba RCMP’s Major Crime Unit. “Whenever anybody loses their life to a homicide, it’s concerning. But when we’re seeing up to 60 people losing their lives due to violent crime, it is concerning across the province.”

This year saw two notable homicides with multiple victims; in February, a mother, her three children, and her niece were killed at multiple crime scenes in and around Carman, Man.

Police tape is seen outside of a home in Carman, Man. where a homicide took place in February 2024. (CTV News Winnipeg)

In August, RCMP responded to a triple homicide in McCreary that investigators described as a “horrific act of intimate partner violence.”

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