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By Dori Modney

Stabbing incident near SCS results in man charged with assault with a weapon

Sep 9, 2019 | 3:07 PM

LETHBRIDGE — A 29 year old city man is in custody and facing an assault charge, after a stabbing outside the Supervised Consumption Site on Saturday (Sept 7).

Around 2:30 p.m. police responded to a stabbing along the 1000 block of 1 Avenue South. Officers secured the area and seized a knife that had been left in the roadway. Further investigation determined a 39-year-old man and 29-year-old man – who are known to one another – had been involved in a physical altercation in the street.

The younger man struck the older man in the head causing him to fall to the ground then produced a knife and stabbed him in the face. The victim was taken to hospital where he was treated and released.

A short time later police located the accused at a northside home where he was arrested.

Nathan Luke Brewer, is charged with two counts of assault with a weapon and possession of a dangerous weapon. Following a Judicial Interim Release hearing, a Justice of the Peace released Brewer from custody with several conditions including no contact with the victim and a prohibition from attending within 100 metres of the Supervised Consumption Site.

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Brewer was scheduled to appear in court September 18. However, the following day (Sept. 8), he went back to the SCS and was arrested for breach of a recognizance. He is now in custody awaiting a second Judicial Interim Release.