Security guard stabbed at welfare assistance office -suspect arrested
Winnipeg Canada Jan 17 2019
A 47-year-old man is accused of stabbing a security guard at the employment and income assistance office in the Exchange District on Monday afternoon.
Police were called to the Rorie Street building around 3:20 p.m, where they arrested a suspect.
The security guard was taken to hospital in unstable condition, which has since been upgraded to stable.
Witnesses told police the man entered the building, leaped over a counter and made his way past a glass barrier designed to separate staff and the public.
The security guard asked the man to leave, and the man pulled out a knife and stabbed the guard, a police news release says.
The suspect is charged with aggravated assault and possession of a weapon.
He has been detained at the Winnipeg Remand Centre.
