Charges stayed in Blue Door beating
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The Crown Attorney’s Office has stayed charges against a 33-year-old woman who was accused of seriously assaulting another woman at a downtown Brandon drop-in centre earlier this year. The victim later died.
The woman was charged with aggravated assault and assault with a weapon in relation to the woman’s injuries. After reviewing the case and receiving more information, the Crown’s office said charges were stayed because there was no reasonable likelihood of conviction.
Stayed charges can be re-laid up to one year after the stay.
The Blue Door, a drop-in centre at 31A Ninth St. in Brandon, closed permanently about a month after the March assault on a woman who died a short time later. (Michele McDougall/The Brandon Sun files)
Brandon Police Service responded to a “very serious assault” in March on the premises of the Blue Door drop-in centre on Ninth Street, Chief Tyler Bates told the Sun in April.
He said the victim died shortly after the assault.
The police chief said BPS was waiting for information from the medical examiner’s office on the woman’s cause of death.
The Sun was not able to confirm with BPS on Monday if the cause of death had been determined.
The Blue Door closed about a month after the incident. Brandon Neighbourhood Renewal Corporation announced the closure on its Facebook page and cited “escalating safety concerns and ongoing operational challenges.”
Bates said while the Blue Door offered people basic needs, criminal activity had been increasing, including assaults, drug activity and weapons offences.
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