Man jumps on Winnipeg police car hood, gets arrested for convenience store robbery
Police say 27-year-old armed with scissors and a knife asked officers to kill him
A 27-year-old Winnipeg man is behind bars after he jumped on a police car while asking officers to kill him following a convenience store robbery, police said Thursday morning.
Winnipeg police said they got a call Tuesday afternoon about a man with scissors and a knife who was checking cars in the 600 block of Selkirk Avenue.
The man, who is accused of robbing a convenience store in the same block, was armed when police found him in the area of McKenzie Street and Pritchard Avenue
The man had scissors and a knife and asked officers to shoot him, police said in a news release.
Police said they Tasered the man but the shock wasn't enough to stop him.
Still armed, he jumped on the hood of their cruiser, police said.
Police shot the man a second time with a Taser and the shock was enough to take him down, allowing officers to take him into custody.
The man was taken to hospital where he was medically cleared, police said.
He now faces a number of charges, including robbery, possession of a weapon, assaulting a peace officer and failure to comply with a probation order.