Man wanted in deadly 2024 shooting of Winnipeg soccer player arrested in B.C.

Man wanted in deadly 2024 shooting of Winnipeg soccer player arrested in B.C.

Tresor Horimbere was wanted in connection with July 2024 shooting of Mohamed Yusuf Abdullahi, 22

One of Canada's most wanted fugitives has been arrested in British Columbia in connection with the fatal shooting of a Winnipeg soccer player two years ago, police say.

Tresor Horimbere, 24, was arrested in Langley, B.C., on July 30, Winnipeg police said in a Tuesday news release.

Officers from Manitoba travelled to Langley to arrest Horimbere and take him back to Winnipeg on Monday, where he was officially charged with first-degree murder in connection with the killing of Mohamed Yusuf Abdullahi, 22, on July 13, 2024.

Horimbere has been on Canada's Top 25 most wanted list through the BOLO Program — an acronym for "be on the lookout" — since October 2025. A $100,000 reward for his arrest was offered through the program.

Abdullahi was shot in the parking lot of the Ralph Cantafio Soccer Complex on Waverley Street before being rushed to hospital in critical condition, where he was pronounced dead.

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He had just finished playing in the sixth Canada African Cup of Nations 2024 tournament on Team Eritrea.

Spokesperson Const. Dani McKinnon previously said Winnipeg police believed Abdullahi's killing could have been related to criminal activity such as drugs or gangs, and that his killers "took methods to conceal themselves, and … they were likely in the crowd of the soccer game."

Abdullahi was born in Somalia in 2002. His family fled the civil war there to a refugee camp in Ethiopia, one of his teammates said during a July 2024 memorial.

In 2014, Abdullahi and his family moved to Canada, where he eventually graduated from Gordon Bell High School in Winnipeg. He volunteered as a soccer coach for young children and had organized a weeks-long soccer program for Somali children shortly before he was killed, his teammate said.

Two other men — Ibrahim Bangura and Norbert Kipala — were also charged in connection with Abdullahi's death.

Kipala, then 27, was arrested on Feb. 5, 2025, at the Thunder Bay Correctional Centre, where he was already in custody on an unrelated matter, and charged with first-degree murder.

Bangura's charge was stayed in May 2025, after prosecutors said they determined his involvement was "different than the co-accused in this situation."