RCMP release:
Annapolis District RCMP has charged a man with several offences following aggravated assaults in Clementsport.
On September 6, at approximately 9 p.m., RCMP officers responded to reports of an assault at a home in the 1500 block of Hwy. 1. En route, they learned of another assault nearby involving the same man. Upon arriving at the scene on Hwy. 1, the officers found a vehicle that had crashed into a guardrail.
Through the investigation, officers learned that the man had been involved in an altercation with someone he knew before leaving the location in a car. After crashing into a guardrail, he assaulted two people before taking off on foot.
The two bystanders, aged 61 and 58 and both from Clementsport, suffered life-threatening injuries and were transported to hospital by EHS. A third man, a 46-year-old also from Clementsport, received non-life-threatening injuries.
On September 7, at approximately 2:45 p.m., 25-year-old William Cedric Douglas Windsor, of Clementsport, was safely arrested in Digby and charged with:
- Aggravated Assault (two counts)
- Assault Causing Bodily Harm
- Assault
- Uttering Threats
- Dangerous Operation of a Motor Vehicle
- Operation while Impaired
- Failure to Comply with Probation Order (two counts)
Windsor was held in custody and appeared in Digby Provincial Court on September 8.
The investigation is ongoing.
