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Police continue to investigate after an 18-year-old man was found “unresponsive’ in this downtown Brandon apartment block early Monday morning. He was taken to hospital, where he was declared dead.
Investigators are treating the death of an 18-year-old man as suspicious, and possibly a homicide.
Police were called to a downtown apartment block early Monday morning where they found an "unresponsive" teen in one of the suites.
He was taken to hospital where he was declared dead.
A number of people were reportedly detained by police, presumably for questioning, but as of Monday evening no charges had been laid.
"At this time no arrest has been made and numerous interviews are continuing at this time," Brandon Police Service Sgt. Guy Roberts said Monday afternoon.
Police said they were called to an apartment block on the 300-block of Louise Avenue at 12:05 a.m. because a resident of one of the apartments wanted an unwanted male removed from the home.
Officers arrived to find an 18-year-old man in the suite with a wound to his upper body.
Unresponsive, he was taken to Brandon hospital where he was pronounced dead around 1 a.m.
There appears to have been a number of people at the apartment at the time, as a neighbour reports that a number were taken from the scene in police vehicles.
Reportedly, the deceased is the man who the resident had wanted removed when police were originally called.
He didn’t live at the apartment, but was known previously to the people who were there.
The Brandon Sun has been told that the deceased had been stabbed, but that hasn’t been confirmed by police.
As of Monday morning, police said the death was suspicious and foul play was suspected.
The name of the deceased hasn’t been released.
The Brandon Police Service Forensic Identification Unit van was still at the scene around 8:30 a.m. on Monday.
The apartment block consists of a large house that’s divided into suites.
Yellow police tape blocked off a ground-floor door which police said was the entrance to a basement suite.
One neighbour said she’d looked out her window during the night to see the flashing lights of an ambulance at the apartment block and could hear a woman crying, "No, no, no."
There were eight to nine police vehicles outside the building.
She said the apartment block is known as a "party house." People had been known to drink in the yard and police have been called there frequently in the past.
Another area resident said he looked out his window around 1:30 a.m. to see police officers, an ambulance and a fire truck outside the apartment block.
Blaming poverty and a lack of government support and social programs, he feels crime and violence in the city is on the rise.
"It’s downtown Brandon … I’m not surprised," the man, who asked not be named, said after learning of the death in his neighbourhood.
The BPS Criminal Investigations Unit continues to investigate.
Roberts said that a postmortem would likely be done today.
» ihitchen@brandonsun.com
Republished from the Brandon Sun print edition March 12, 2013
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Investigators are treating the death of an 18-year-old man as suspicious, and possibly a homicide.
Police were called to a downtown apartment block early Monday morning where they found an "unresponsive" teen in one of the suites.
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