The Pas RCMP arrested and charged a 15-year-old with aggravated assault and robbery after a taxi driver was repeatedly stabbed by a passenger Jan. 8.
Police responded to a report of a injured taxi driver on Young Point Road south of The Pas around 6:30 p.m. that day. The 30-year-old driver had picked up a male passenger near Bell Avenue. When they reached Young Point Road, the passenger told the driver to pull over and let him out, then attacked the driver from the back seat, stabbing him multiple times and fleeing with stolen cash.
Passersby stopped to assist the injured driver, who was being attended to by emergency medical services personnel by the time police arrived and was transported to hospital with non-life-threatening injuries.
The accused remains in police custody.
