Overview

• The 28-year-old suspect was taken into custody on July 4 and faces five counts of sexual assault and related charges.
• Police allege he attacked a teenage girl and three Health Sciences Centre staff on the evening of July 2, with a fifth assault reported the next day.
• The unprovoked incidents occurred along common staff and patient routes, including Elgin Avenue and Sherbrook Street, hospital tunnels and Emily Street.
• Witnesses described a slim man in his 20s wearing a Winnipeg Jets shirt, and police say those accounts were pivotal in tracking him down.
• The Manitoba Nurses Union has highlighted unsecured hospital tunnels after an attack there and officials have reminded staff and patients of safe-walk services and sexual assault support lines.