WINNIPEG - Police in Winnipeg say arrests have been made after a 16-year-old Manitoba girl was beaten and left for dead in the icy water of the Assiniboine River.
A charge of attempted murder is expected to be laid, but there's no immediate word on how many suspects have been arrested.
Investigators have said Rinelle Harper was out with friends on Friday night when she was attacked near a downtown bridge and ended up in the river.
She managed to pull herself onto a walkway, where she was discovered by a passerby and rushed to hospital in critical condition.
Officers called the attack "sexual in nature" and took the unusual step of identifying the girl, with her parents' permission, in the hope of cracking the case.
CTV Winnipeg has quoted unnamed police sources as saying surveillance footage from a building in the area was helping retrace the girl's steps, and that the cameras had captured images of two males that were with her.
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A charge of attempted murder is expected to be laid, but there's no immediate word on how many suspects have been arrested.
Investigators have said Rinelle Harper was out with friends on Friday night when she was attacked near a downtown bridge and ended up in the river.
She managed to pull herself onto a walkway, where she was discovered by a passerby and rushed to hospital in critical condition.
Officers called the attack "sexual in nature" and took the unusual step of identifying the girl, with her parents' permission, in the hope of cracking the case.
CTV Winnipeg has quoted unnamed police sources as saying surveillance footage from a building in the area was helping retrace the girl's steps, and that the cameras had captured images of two males that were with her.
580 CFRA News Talk Radio :: Suspects arrested and charged after teen in Winnipeg attacked, left in river :: News - National Article
*remembering the good old days when CFRA was a music radio station...it and CFGO.