A pair of weekend shootings in Winnipeg's North End has police advising residents to use caution.
In the first incident, multiple shots were fired through the back door of a Selkirk Avenue home on Saturday. Two of the people inside were hit. Michael Warren Sinclair, a father originally from Broken Head First Nation, didn't survive.
Next officers were called, 24-hours later, to another shooting only a few blocks away. At least one suspect knocked on the door of a house on Aberdeen Avenue. As the father and son went to open the door, gunshots went off, narrowly missing the two.
Although the shootings haven't yet been linked, police are warning the public. "We want members of the public to have that heightened sense of personal safety," said Const. Jason Michalyshen. "However, we don't want to cause panic. We don't want to cause fear."
Mary Atkinson and her boyfriend Harry Kampbell said the shooting is causing fears among residents.
"I don't answer the door," said Atkinson.
"It keeps everyone on edge too," said Kampbell.
People living in the North End are feeling similar emotions to those felt in October 2010 when there were three shootings in 45 minutes in the area. It was a killing spree that took two men's lives, and remains unsolved.
In the pair of most recent shootings it's not yet known if there are one or more suspects. Forensics testing of bullet fragments taken from each scene is now underway.
Anyone with information on either the homicide or shooting is asked to call police.
-With a report from CTV's Stacey Ashley
