Suspect who brutally attacked a 17-year-old student is behind bars

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Suspect who brutally attacked a 17-year-old student is behind bars

January 25, 2018
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Winnipeg Police have arrested the 26-year-old man who brutally attacked a 17-year-old university student on Tuesday, January 23, 2018.

GOT EM"! We are happy to report that the below suspect has been arrested and taken back into custody. https://t.co/qZlkahqrAv

— Winnipeg Police (@wpgpolice) January 25, 2018

The suspect was wanted after he attacked the victim in a bus shelter outside portage place. The unprovoked attacked left the victim with serious facial and head injuries. The student from India had only been in Winnipeg for a month. Police say that he was treated in hospital and released but will require follow up medical treatment.

Suspected wanted in assault on 17-year-old male victim outside Portage Place January 23, 2018 (WPS / News 4)

Police released video leading up to the attack and pictures of the suspect in hopes of capturing him as soon as possible.

“We need to get this person identified as soon as possible and have them removed from the streets,” said Winnipeg Police Public Information Officer Tammy Skrabek on Wednesday. She said she believes that the attacker is “more dangerous than anybody else out there.”

Police also said that the victim and suspect did not know each other and that evidence shows the suspect calmly waited until others in the bus shelter had left before he launched his attack

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On Wednesday afternoon, January 24, 2018, the suspect carjacked a 56-year-old male victim in a parking lot in the 2300 block of McPhillips Street, forcing the man from his vehicle and driving away.

Police in Gimli found the vehicle abandoned in the area and reported that a pickup truck was stolen from the same location.

Just before 9:15 pm the stolen pickup fueled up at a gas station in Headingley then took off without paying. 15 min later police saw the truck on Portage Avenue near Maryland. As the driver fled Air-1 was called in to follow as officers on the ground used stop sticks to slow the vehicle down.

Officers were eventually able to stop the vehicle on Portage Avenue just west of Ferry Road. The suspect was arrested and taken into custody

Joshua Zachary Snakeskin has been charged, for his alleged involvement, with: