Lockdown for Manitoba First Nation as RCMP search for suspect in bar shooting - The Turtle Island News

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NORWAY HOUSE, MANITOBA-CP-Residents of a First Nation in northern Manitoba were urged to lock their doors late Tuesday as Mounties used police dogs and other specialized units to search for a man suspected in a bar shooting. RCMP were called around 5:30 p.m. Tuesday to a disturbance just south of Lagoon Road in Norway House, a roughly 800-kilometre drive from Winnipeg. “Upon arrival, officers located two males with gunshot injuries,” police said in a news release. The conditions of the two men were not immediately available. The Norway House Cree Nation said in an emergency alert that the shooting took place at the Playgreen Inn bar. The alert said the suspected shooter was seen running into the bush of nearby Fort Island and that RCMP were searching for him. As

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