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Teen charged with 2nd-degree murder in 2022 house fire homicide

A 19-year-old man has been arrested in connection with a homicide that happened more than two years ago, connected to a fire atNorth End Winnipeg home.

Police still trying to identify 2 individuals who were nearby around time of homicide

A police car sits outside a home.
A 19-year-old man has been charged with second-degree murder in connection with the death of a 30-year-old man in Winnipeg more than two years ago. Police are still looking for two people who were in the area at the time. (Jeff Stapleton/CBC)

A 19-year-old man ischarged with second-degree murder in a homicide connected to a North End Winnipeg fire that happened more than two years ago.

The manwas 17 at the time of the homicide.

In April 2022, police responded to an early morning house fire on Flora Avenue near McKenzie Street. Authorities found the body of a 30-year-old man during a search of the two-storey house.

His death was a homicide, officers said the following day. The victim was later identified as Steven Andrew Mingo.

Police are still looking for two people who were in the area around the time of the homicide, they said Thursday in a news release about the arrest.

Surveillance footage of the twowas released last spring in the two-year anniversary of the homicide.

A surveillance photo of two people walking down a path.
Police are asking for the help finding two people who were in the area at the time of the homicide. (Submitted by the Winnipeg Police Service)

Anyone with information is asked to call the Winnipeg Police Service homicide unit at 204-986-6508 or anonymously via Crime Stoppers at 204-786-TIPS.