A 16-year-old charged in a southern Alberta highway shooting that left a German tourist with serious injuries is working to finalize the appointment of his lawyer.
The boy appeared via video link in Cochrane provincial court and was granted a week’s delay in his case.
Calgary lawyer Lisa Burgis, who appeared on behalf of Balfour Der, asked for the delay to finalize Der being retained for the youth.
The teen, who is from the nearby Stoney Nakoda First Nation west of Calgary, can’t be named because of his age.
He faces 14 charges, including attempted murder and possession of a prohibited firearm.
The 60-year-old tourist was driving a black Dodge Durango with his family near Morley, Alta., when the shooting happened Aug. 2.
Police have said another vehicle was passing the Durango when a shot was fired from its passenger window and into the tourist’s SUV.
The Durango crashed into a ditch after the shooting near the Goodstoney Rodeo Centre on Stoney Nakoda land.
Three family members in the SUV weren’t seriously injured.
The driver survived and was flown back to Germany, where surgeons removed the bullet. He can’t talk or move his right side as a result of the injury.
Police say there were others in the car with the accused, but no other charges are pending and investigators aren’t searching for other suspects.
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