A woman has been charged with manslaughter in the fatal stabbing of a 12-year-old boy killed in a violent altercation.
The 19-year-old woman has been charged in relation to the homicide, the Winnipeg Police Service announced on Tuesday.
The child has been identified by family as Sanchez Boulanger. Police have not named the accused.
Few details have been provided so far on the stabbing, which police call “exceptionally troubling.”
Last Friday night, two groups got into an altercation on Burrows Avenue in north-central Winnipeg, near Main Street, where the boy was stabbed, police say.
An off-duty nurse who police described as a Good Samaritan helped officers care for the