Two men charged in Regina after altercation over car

The owner of a car and the man who allegedly was trying to steal it both are facing charges in Regina.

According to the Regina Police Service, officers were called Saturday at about 4 a.m., to a house on Dawson Crescent for a report of a weapons offence.

When police arrived, they found a man who had been stabbed. Paramedics took the man to the hospital with serious but non-life-threatening wounds.

In the course of their investigation, officers determined the man allegedly had been trying to steal a car in a parking lot on Avonhurst Drive and Elphinstone Street when the vehicle’s owner arrived.

“It appears an altercation took place in which it’s alleged the vehicle owner stabbed the suspect,” the police said in a media release.

Officers found the vehicle and its owner in a parking lot on Avonhurst Drive. The owner, a 44-year-old Regina man, is charged with aggravated assault.

The other suspect is charged with assault with a weapon, attempted theft of a motor vehicle and possession of break-in instruments.

Suspect leaves hospital

On Tuesday, police said the 30-year-old man who had been stabbed left the General Hospital at about 3:15 a.m., before he was officially discharged.

The man, who’s described as being about 6-foot-0 and 298 pounds, was last seen wearing a hospital gown when he left the hospital’s emergency department on foot.

Police say it’s imperative that the man returns to the hospital.

EDITOR’S NOTE: On June 6, 2022, the charge against the car owner was stayed by the Crown.