Shot in the eye, woman insists on finishing beer

It was like she was oblivious to what had happened

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A Winnipeg woman who was shot through the eye remained “oblivious” to her injury and her friend’s dead body beside her and instead concentrated on finishing her beer, a source says.

Justice sources say it was nothing short of a miracle the 30-year-old woman didn’t become the city’s 40th homicide victim of 2011. Police and paramedics arrived inside the Winnipeg home in the early hours of Dec. 31 to find the woman calmly sitting in a chair.

“It was like she was oblivious to what had happened. She didn’t want any treatment until after she finished her beer,” a source told the Winnipeg Free Press.

The woman was severely impaired, either by drugs or alcohol or both, and seemed to be showing no discomfort despite the obvious injury she suffered. There were as many as 10 other people in the home, also in various states of impairment.

“It’s going to take a considerable amount of time to speak to those individuals,” a police spokeswoman said last weekend.

The b o dy o f 46-year-old Michael Warren Sinclair was found inside the same room. He was pronounced dead at hospital.

Police have made no arrests in what was the 39th homicide of a recordsetting year.

Winnipeg’s previous high was 34 homicides.

The woman remains in hospital but is listed in stable condition.

They point to her as a classic example of how many other “close calls” there were last year, where either quick medical help or divine intervention saved the body count from going even higher.