Charges have been laid against a twenty-nine-year-old man in the death of a fifteen-year-old boy who was riding his bicycle in the Lockport area, just north of Winnipeg.
RCMP say the boy was cycling with another fifteen-year-old on the shoulder of a road in the Rural Municipality of St. Andrews late friday night when a vehicle went off the roadway and hit them.
The boy, identified by his family as Ben Harris, was heading home from a sleepover and was near the turnoff to his house when he and his friend were struck. His friend, the other fifteen-year-old, was taken to hospital with non-life threatening injuries, while Harris was announced dead at the scene.
Police say the vehicle that hit the boys was stolen. Twenty-nine-year-old Justin Joseph Little faces fourteen charges including impaired operation of a motor vehicle by a drug causing death, failure to remain at the scene of an accident where a person is deceased, and possession of property obtained by crime over five-thousand dollars.
