Pictou County District RCMP, with the assistance of Northeast Nova Major Crimes Unit, has charged a 17-year-old male as a result of a stabbing in Pictou Landing.
Shortly after 11:30 p.m. on Tuesday evening, RCMP received a call of a stabbing that occurred on Beach Rd. in Pictou Landing First Nation. Preliminary investigation determined that a 29-year-old male from Belle Marche, Nova Scotia, had suffered apparent stab wounds to his body. He was transported to the Aberdeen Regional Hospital in New Glasgow with serious but non-life threatening injuries. He remains in hospital.
As a result a 17-year-old male from from Pictou Landing First Nation has been charged with:
Attempted Murder
Aggravated assault
Failure to comply with undertaking
Possession of Property Obtained by Crime.
The accused is currently in custody and will appear in Provincial Youth Court in Pictou today at 1:30 p.m.
The investigation is continuing.
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Source: Media Release