A 36-year-old man went to hospital and a 36-year-old woman was taken into police custody after Thompson RCMP responded to a stabbing incident in the Eastwood area April 12, says RCMP D Division spokesperson Sgt. Line Karpish.
Police were dispatched to a residence at the intersection of Princeton Drive and Purdue Avenue just before 11:30 p.m. April 12, where they found the victim, a resident of Thompson, suffering from non-life-threatening injuries after being stabbed by his common-law wife. He was transported to Thompson General Hospital.
The woman, also a resident of Thompson, was located at about 1 a.m., taken into custody and was scheduled to appear in Thompson Provincial Court April 15 on charges of assault and assault with a weapon. The names of the people involved are not being released to protect the identity of the victim, said an RCMP news release.
The location where the stabbing took place is notorious for violent incidents.
It is adjacent to the townhouse where 17-year-old Stanley Mackechnie of The Pas was found dead on April 10, 2009, in what was Thompson's first murder of 2009. Trevor Mercredi and Howard Pagee of Thompson and Wilfred Cook of The Pas were charged with second-degree murder in connection with Mackechnie's death.
That murder took place just steps away from the spot where 25-year-old Charles Brightnose of Thompson was found unconscious Nov. 29, 2008 after being assaulted. Brightnose died two days later from his injuries. Kenneth Munroe of Thompson, Cassidy Elston (KC) Eagle and Owen Phillip (O-Dog) McDonald were charged with second-degree murder in Brightnose's slaying.
The area of Princeton Drive and Purdue Avenue is also where Sean Heickert was seriously wounded in a drive-by shooting Aug. 20, 2008. Heickert was arrested in December 2007 after Bekim Zeneli, the 33-year-old former leader of the LHS (Loyalty, Honour, Silence) street gang, was shot to death inside a home at 208 Brandon Cres., not far from the intersection of Princeton and Purdue. Heickert was charged with first-degree murder in connection with Zeneli's death in October 2008.
