Suspect in 2 Winnipeg homicides faces 1st-degree murder charge in 3rd killing
Maxim Dale Garneau, 27, now charged in March death of Robert Clayton Smith: police
A man already facing murder charges in two separate homicides has been charged with a third killing in Winnipeg's North End.
Winnipeg police charged Maxim Dale Garneau, 27, with first-degree murder on Tuesday in the death of Robert Clayton Smith, 35. Smith died in hospital after he was found shot on March 16 at a home on Manitoba Avenue, between Charles and Salter streets, police said in a Wednesday news release.
Garneau was charged at the Winnipeg Remand Centre, where he is in custody on two counts of second-degree murder in the unrelated killings of two other people.
He was arrested in the city's Point Douglas area with a loaded rifle in his backpack on April 11, after police filed arrest warrants in connection with the death of Edgar Allan Bear, 56, who was found dead in a house on Selkirk Avenue near McNichol Street on March 18.
Police were also looking for him in connection with the death of Daniel Raymond Garvey-Rodriguez, 25, who was found suffering from a gunshot wound outside an apartment building on College Avenue on Sept. 10, 2023 and later died.
The homicide unit continues to investigate.