Man pleads guilty to shotgun slaying

Frederick Francis Mathias Baker, a 28-year-old Winnipeg drug dealer, pleaded guilty to second-degree murder in the March 2025 slaying of Bronson Emery Dale Kequahtooway, a 30-year-old man whose body was discovered in a garbage bin and dragged to a West End alleyway. According to Crown prosecutor Matt Armstrong, Baker shot Kequahtooway once in the thigh with a sawed-off shotgun and then shot him a second time in the head with a sawed-off .22 rifle.

Baker, who had a prior, acrimonious relationship with Kequahtooway, had barred him from entering his house. The victim tricked a door attendant into opening the door for Kequahtooway, who entered Baker's suite. Baker and Eric Matthew Morrissette, who was armed with a cut-down bolt-action .22 rifle, arrived at the suite just after 12 a.m. on March 28, where Kequahtooway was alone in the living room.

Baker shot Kequahtooway once in the thigh, and within one second, he was shot in the head by Morrissette. Baker instructed Little, who was present, not to speak about the incident and fled with Morrissette. The body was then dragged to a garbage bin and left in a West End alleyway.