One dead, one injured in violence at Pembina café
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This article was published 15/04/2019 (1836 days ago), so information in it may no longer be current.
Winnipeg police are investigating a homicide after a man died in a fight at a Fort Rouge restaurant.
Police were called to a report of a double stabbing at Ramallah Café (325 Pembina Hwy.) just after 11 p.m. Monday.
One man was sent to hospital in critical condition and died Tuesday. Another man remained in unstable condition.
The Ramallah Café, meanwhile, was the focus of intense police scrutiny well into the day.
A notice was posted on its Facebook page that announced the restaurant and hookah café was “closed until further notice.”
Investigators spent the night and into the day interviewing numerous witnesses. By mid-afternoon Tuesday, no arrests had been announced.
On Tuesday morning, police maintained a visible presence at the crime scene near Osborne Village. A half-dozen officers were outside the café in front, and one stationed behind the building.
A plate glass door in front was shattered, the glass littering the sidewalk, and nearby businesses — a barber shop, a maid service and a Chinese restaurant that share the building, and a spa in the building next door — remained closed.
Yellow crime tape encircled most of the block on Pembina Highway between Warsaw and Mulvey avenues, and police vehicles were parked in front and behind the café.
Few neighbours answered their doors Tuesday morning.
One woman who was at home described the restaurant as “active,” pretty much day and night. The back lane, paired with the constant hum of traffic on Pembina, a major thoroughfare, made for a lot of noise, she said.
Ramallah’s website advertises it as a family restaurant, as well as an after-hours haunt (open to 11 p.m. most nights, 4 a.m. on Fridays and Saturdays). Past patrons reported the food was good, the place was crowded most of the time, and there was a near-constant haze from the smoke of hookah water pipes.
alexandra.paul@freepress.mb.ca
