A violent altercation on Alberta’s Frog Lake First Nation earlier this week has resulted in the arrest of a youth.
Elk Point RCMP received a call that a man had been shot at about 9:45 p.m. on Aug. 8 on Frog Lake First Nation, approximately 200 kilometres east of Edmonton.
Police determined a 34-year-old man had been driving a side-by-side ATV through someone’s property when his dog “got into an altercation with two of the property owner’s dogs.”
The 34-year-old tried to defend his dog by pulling a sword from his ATV. A 17-year-old then “appeared and shot him in the leg with a shotgun,” police said.
The injured man left, was treated by paramedics and then airlifted to the University of Alberta in stable condition.
RCMP said the 17-year-old was arrested and will be answering to charges in St. Paul Provincial Court on Sept. 1. The youth can’t be identified under the Youth Criminal Justice Act.