{"id":127260,"date":"2025-08-07T20:41:10","date_gmt":"2025-08-07T20:41:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/127260\/"},"modified":"2025-08-07T20:41:10","modified_gmt":"2025-08-07T20:41:10","slug":"millennium-library-shut-down-after-mans-death-on-wednesday","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/127260\/","title":{"rendered":"Millennium Library shut down after man&#8217;s death on Wednesday"},"content":{"rendered":"<p dir=\"ltr\">Winnipeg&#8217;s downtown library was shut down on Thursday\u00a0after police say a 40-year old man died after being found there on Wednesday evening.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">Hours of operation on the City of Winnipeg website showed that the Millennium library was &#8220;closed until further notice&#8221; on Thursday, a day when the city&#8217;s largest library is typically open. The library will remain closed on Friday, and is expected to reopen at 1 p.m. on Saturday, the website said.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">The Winnipeg Police Service said in a Thursday email that officers were &#8220;on scene of an investigation&#8221; on Wednesday,\u00a0and later confirmed that a\u00a0man died as a result of the incident.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" alt=\"A red sign says that the Millennium Library is closed until further notice. \"   src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/library-closed.jpeg\" style=\"aspect-ratio:1.5012722646310432\" data-cy=\"image-img\"\/>Winnipeg&#8217;s Millennium Library is usually open on Thursdays, but was closed following police response to a medic call Wednesday night.\u00a0 (Prabhjot Singh Lotey\/CBC)<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">Police say they responded to a medic call\u00a0on Wednesday around 7:30 p.m., and when they arrived at the downtown library they found\u00a0a 40-year-old male with significant injuries.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">He was transported to the hospital where he was pronounced dead, police said.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">Police say it has been determined that the death is non-suspicious, and said they will offer no further comment on the incident.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-left:0px;margin-right:0px\"><strong>More from CBC Manitoba:<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Winnipeg&#8217;s downtown library was shut down on Thursday\u00a0after police say a 40-year old man died after being found&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":127261,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[2147,50],"class_list":{"0":"post-127260","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-news","8":"tag-canada","9":"tag-news"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/114989425311131684","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/127260","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=127260"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/127260\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/127261"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=127260"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=127260"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=127260"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}