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Leaf Rapids RCMP charged Matteo Baker with second-degree murder in the death of a 55-year-old man.
Manitoba RCMP said Baker, 23, of Leaf Rapids, was charged after a man was found dead at a Nisku Bay residence on Oct. 21, 2026, and that he remains in custody. CBC News and the Winnipeg Free Press reported the charge on Sunday, Oct. 25. The man who died has not been named.
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A second-degree murder charge is the accusation RCMP announced. It is not a finding about how the man died, and none of these accounts named him. The RCMP release is dated Oct. 23. CBC News called the same charge a Sunday morning update.
Manitoba RCMP said further investigation into the death of a 55-year-old man in Leaf Rapids on Oct. 21, 2026, resulted in an arrest. The release, dated Oct. 23, says Matteo Baker, a 23-year-old man from Leaf Rapids, has been charged with second degree murder and remains in custody. CBC News reported Sunday, Oct. 25, that Baker, 23, was charged with second-degree murder and remains in custody, and it called that announcement a Sunday morning update. The Winnipeg Free Press reported the same day that RCMP charged Baker, 23, of Leaf Rapids, with second-degree murder and that he remains in custody. Second degree, in the RCMP release, and second-degree, in CBC News and the Free Press, are the same charge. A charge is the accusation those outlets reported.
The RCMP release says that on Oct. 21, at about 8:50 a.m., Leaf Rapids RCMP got a report of an unresponsive man at a residence on Nisku Bay, that officers found a 55-year-old man, and that he was pronounced dead at the scene. It says the death is being investigated as a homicide. The Free Press reported the same time, the same bay, and the same date. CBC News reported police received a report of an unresponsive man at a home in Leaf Rapids on Wednesday morning, that a 55-year-old man was pronounced dead at the scene, and that police began investigating the death as a homicide. Wednesday was Oct. 21. CBC News reported Leaf Rapids is about 750 kilometres northwest of Winnipeg. The RCMP release and the Free Press did not print that distance. None of the three named the man who died.
The RCMP release says Major Crime Services and Forensic Identification Services are continuing to investigate, and it asks anyone with information to call Leaf Rapids RCMP at 204-473-2944 or Manitoba Crime Stoppers at 1-800-222-8477. The Free Press reported the same two numbers. CBC News reported the Leaf Rapids RCMP number and reported that the investigation is continuing. It did not print the Crime Stoppers number. No account in this file describes a weapon, a relationship between the two men, or anything Baker is alleged to have said. All defendants are presumed innocent until proven guilty in a court of law.
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