Police say a driver who ran a person down in the GFL Memorial Gardens parking lot had just been stabbed with his own knife in a confrontation over an allegedly stolen bike.
The driver was going down Ron Francis Way on March 17 when they saw three people with "what they believed to be their bike, which had been stolen," Sault Police said in a release.
The driver, who had a knife, got out to confront the people and is alleged to have assaulted one of them. Police say the assailant "lost control" of the knife and ended up being stabbed by one of the people he had confronted.
The accused got back in his vehicle, drove the wrong way down Bay Street, jumped the curb into the rear GFL Memorial Gardens parking lot and struck the person who had stabbed him, police say.
The accused stabber and the two others with them left after what police described as another altercation.
The driver was taken to hospital suffering from stab wounds.
Police did not say whether the bike in question belonged to the accused or not.
On Friday, detectives arrested an accused.
The accused is charged with:
• Attempted Murder
• Assault with a Weapon
• Dangerous Operation
• Possession of a Weapon for a Dangerous Purpose
• Assault
The accused was held in custody pending a bail hearing, and subsequently released.
On April 12, detectives located an accused, and they were arrested and charged with aggravated assault. The accused was held in custody pending a bail hearing, and subsequently released on an undertaking.