Winnipeg police are investigating two separate stabbings this weekend that both involve teenagers.
Both males were sent to hospital with serious injuries, where they remain.
Early Sunday morning a 16-year-old was found stabbed outside an apartment building on Kennedy Street. People who live in the area say they're not surprised the stabbing happened.
"I've seen people get beaten up and just fights between people that have been drinking on the street here," said Michelle Hunter who lives on Kennedy.
A day earlier, in the area of College Avenue and Aikins Street, a 15-year-old boy was stabbed multiple times in the upper body. Police say the boy had been in trouble with the law before.
Police are now focused on finding out what happened and who is responsible. They're also looking into why more and more young people are involved in serious crimes.
"These are negative things. When we have 15, 16-year-olds sustaining these types of injuries and potentially young people responsible for these incidents…" said Winnipeg Police Const. Jason Michalyshen.
Kent Dueck works with Inner City Youth Alive, an organization aimed at helping Winnipeg's troubled youth. "It seems as though there's an increased gang activity in the neighbourhood," he said. "Little more showing their colours."
It's an issues that's concerning for Dueck who has been working with youth for 25 years. He says kids are going as far as carrying weapons at school.
"Not to say everyone is out with a knife but there is a degree that this kind of tension has increased where people feel, ‘maybe I need to carry something,'" said Dueck.
Both victims are still in hospital in critical, but stable condition. No arrests have been made in either case.
-With a report from CTV's Ina Sidhu
