Teen faces animal cruelty charges after Canada geese driven over and killed in Winnipeg
A 17-year-old faces animal cruelty charges after he allegedly drove over several sleeping geese in three Winnipeg parking lots, killing most of them.
Police say the teen, driving an SUV, ran over the geese during a half-hour spree in south Winnipeg on Saturday night.
A sleeping goose was left injured after it was run over in a parking lot on Henlow Bay, in the West Fort Garry Industrial Park, shortly before 10 p.m., Winnipeg police said in a Tuesday news release.
A few minutes later, two sleeping geese were run over and killed in an adjacent Henlow Bay lot.
Two more were killed at 10:17 p.m., when they were chased from their nest and run over in a strip mall parking lot next to Ikea on Sterling Lyon Parkway, in the Seasons of Tuxedo shopping district, police said.
Security video shot by a business at the strip mall, which has been verified , shows an SUV running over Canada geese in the mall’s parking lot.
Officers identified the SUV through security footage and arrested the teen at his home on Monday. He faces five charges of killing or injuring animals.
He was released from custody with a court date, but the investigation is continuing, police said.
