Police have identified the victim of Sunday’s fatal stabbing in St. Boniface as 89-year-old Dorothy Dykens.
Officers had withheld her name as her next of kin was notified.
Melissa Joyce Gabriel, 35, of Winnipeg, has been charged with manslaughter, injuring other animals and two counts of failing to comply with a probation order.
Emergency personnel were dispatched to the 400 block of Tremblay Street for the report of a check-the-well-being call just after 1:30 a.m. on Sunday.
Police allege Gabriel entered the older woman's home late Saturday or early Sunday and stabbed her multiple times before returning home and attacking a dog.
The injured animal was taken to a veterinary hospital.
Officers found Gabriel who had called officials in an intoxicated state and took her into custody.
According to police, the women knew each other.
- with files from The Canadian Press
