Nanaimo axe attack sends 30-year-old man to hospital with serious injuries
A 30-year-old man remains in hospital with serious but non-life-threatening injuries after he was struck in the head with the blunt end of an axe in Nanaimo, B.C., on Saturday.
Mounties say the incident occurred just after 5 p.m. when the victim got into an argument with another man in the parking lot of the Port Place shopping centre in the city's downtown core.
Witnesses told police the suspect, who was known to the victim, fled the scene with the axe following the attack.
Police and canine officers flooded the area after the altercation but were initially unable to locate the perpetrator.
Members of the Nanaimo RCMP bike patrol arrested a 39-year-old man in connection with the attack on Monday morning.
The assault happened less than two weeks after a man was stabbed to death in the same parking lot on Jan. 22.
The B.C. Prosecution Service has approved a charge of second-degree murder against Sean Patterson in the death of Serguei Chiliakhov.
Patterson remains in custody and is scheduled to appear in court on Feb. 16.
Anyone with information on the axe attack is asked to contact the Nanaimo RCMP non-emergency line at 250-754-2345.
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