A young man has been charged in connection with a violent incident that saw two people get stabbed in downtown Edmonton this weekend.

A 45-year-old man has been charged with cruelty to animals, failure to provide adequate shelter and failure to protect from injurious cold.

At around 3:20 a.m. on Sunday, June 19, RCMP were called to a rural residence near Highway 21 and Township Road 512 where a man was found with a stab wound. He was taken to hospital with non-life-threatening injuries.