Woman threatened with scissors in assault outside Health Sciences Centre
A request for a lighter ended with scissors being held to a woman's throat outside Winnipeg's Health Sciences Centre.
Passerby had asked for a lighter
A request for a light was answered with a threat outside Winnipeg's Health Sciences Centre.
Early Sunday, police were called to the hospital following an alleged assault around 2 a.m.
They say a 44-year-old man was refused entry to the hospital by security, then began urinating outside.
Shortly after a passerby asked him if he had a lighter. The man responded by wrapping his arm around the 32-year-old woman and holding a pair of scissors to her.
Police say the woman sustained minor injuries.
The man has been charged with uttering threats, assault with a weapon and possession of a weapon. Police say there is no indication whether the man was intoxicated by drugs or alcohol or how he arrived at the hospital.