An Oxford House man is charged with first-degree murder following an investigation into the death of a 22-year-old woman whose body was found in a Brandon Crescent home in the Eastwood area, RCMP say.
Police responded to a call about an unresponsive woman around 3 a.m. on Sept. 2 and discovered the body of a Thompson woman inside a home at 50 Brandon Cres.
Dustin Wyatt Chubb, 20, has been arrested and charged with first-degree murder. He was scheduled to appear in Thompson provincial court Sept. 7.
"At the request of her family [the victim's] name will not be released," RCMP spokesperson Cst. Miles Hiebert said in a news release.
The cause of death was determined to be blunt force trauma during an autopsy performed in Winnipeg Sept. 3.
The victim and the accused did not know each other previously, said the release.
The area has been the site of several other violent incidents over the past three years.
A woman was taken into police custody there in April following the stabbing of a 36-year-old man.
It is a stone's throw from the townhouse where 17-year-old Stanley Mackechnie of The Pas was found dead on April 10, 2009, in what was Thompson's first murder of 2009. Trevor Mercredi and Howard Pagee of Thompson and Wilfred Cook of The Pas were charged with second-degree murder in connection with Mackechnie's death.
That murder took place just steps away from the spot where 25-year-old Charles Brightnose of Thompson was found unconscious Nov. 29, 2008 after being assaulted. Brightnose died two days later from his injuries. Kenneth Munroe of Thompson, Cassidy Elston (KC) Eagle and Owen Phillip (O-Dog) McDonald were charged with second-degree murder in Brightnose's slaying.
The area of Princeton Drive and Purdue Avenue is also where Sean Heickert was seriously wounded in a drive-by shooting Aug. 20, 2008. Heickert was arrested in December 2007 after Bekim Zeneli, the 33-year-old former leader of the LHS (Loyalty, Honour, Silence) street gang, was shot to death inside a home at 208 Brandon Cres., not far from the intersection of Princeton and Purdue. Heickert was charged with first-degree murder in connection with Zeneli's death in October 2008.
