- Manitoba -Winnipeg police share details about an incident involving a truck that drove onto the front steps of the Manitoba Legislature Wednesday, as well as an investigation into a homicide in the area of Jefferson Avenue and King Edward Street. 0:00 A Winnipeg man is accused of abducting his three-year-old daughter and stabbing her to death on Wednesday morning. Police have charged Frank Nausigimana, 28, with first-degree murder. He is in custody. The estranged father abducted his daughter from her mother at knifepoint in her car in the Robertson neighbourhood before 9:30 a.m., police said in a news release Thursday. Soon after, officers found the man and a vehicle in the area of Jefferson Avenue and King Edward Street. They found the girl inside, suffering from stab wounds. She was rushed to hospital in critical condition and pronounced dead. "I can't imagine the grief and the pain [family members] are experiencing," Const. Jay Murray said at a news conference. "It's unbelievably horrific." Murray said emergency personnel provided first aid and did everything they could. Staff involved were shaken by the experience, Murray said. The mother and father split up soon after their daughter's birth, and there hadn't contact between them in recent months, Murray said. Winnipeg police are holding a news conference about that case as well as the arrest of a man who drove up the front steps of the Manitoba Legislature on Wednesday. Police are expected to release information about a homicide in the area of King Edward Street and Jefferson Avenue near Winnipeg's Tyndall Park and Maples neighbourhoods. They also plan to update the public about what happened at the legislative building Wednesday. Policed swarmed the downtown Winnipeg building after a pickup truck drove up the front steps. Police arrived and arrested the driver, who was later taken by stretcher into an ambulance. Witnesses said they saw a man get out of the truck and heard him shout about graves, bodies and Indigenous children. A truck sits on the front steps of the Manitoba Legislature on Wednesday, July 7, 2021, with police and their vehicles in the foreground. Police will speak about the incident at 12:30 p.m. (Tyson Koschik/CBC) After he was arrested, police were seen leading a woman into the Manitoba Legislature in handcuffs, only to be led out a short time later. She was uncuffed and overheard telling police she was embarrassed before she got into the back of a police cruiser. The incident happened near where a Queen Victoria statue was toppled one week ago during one of two Winnipeg rallies on Canada Day to protest the nation's treatment of Indigenous Peoples. Finance Minister Scott Fielding said government officials haven't yet formally met to decide on how to respond to the vehicle incident, but he said Justice Minister Cameron Friesen is already involved in discussions surrounding security issues at the legislative building. "Our security … they do just a fantastic job for us all the time, but we do need to make sure that they have the proper resources to make sure that public places like the legislature are secure," Fielding said during a Wednesday morning news conference about changes to Manitoba Hydro rates. Police stand near the truck on the front steps of the Manitoba Legislature early Wednesday night. Witnesses say the driver came out of the vehicle yelling. (Ian Froese/CBC) CBC News
