Reckless driving leads to many charges against Moosomin man

A 44-year-old Moosomin man is facing multiple charges after a rampage through the town Wednesday night.

According to the RCMP, officers got multiple calls just after 9 p.m., about a truck being driven recklessly around town.

As officers responded, they were flagged down by a person who said they’d been assaulted by the truck’s driver. The complainant said the man had rammed their vehicle with his truck before taking off.

The Mounties saw the truck outside of a business just as the suspect came out. He allegedly pointed a weapon at the police, walked across the street towards a house, threatened the police officers and a man who had exited the house, and then fired his weapon at the man who had left the house. That man wasn’t injured.

The suspect got back into his truck, left and then drove back to the same house, damaging vehicles and other property along the way. He then drove towards one of the Mounties, who was able to avoid being hit.

The truck subsequently crashed into a boulevard and stopped. When the man got out of the truck, he was arrested.

One of the officers and the suspect suffered minor injuries. Police seized a crossbow.

The man was charged with attempted murder, assault, assault with a weapon, assaulting a peace officer, uttering a threat to cause bodily harm, resisting arrest, dangerous driving, impaired driving, possession of a weapon for a purpose dangerous to the public, committing assault by pointing a weapon, possession of a firearm without a licence to possess it, and six counts of mischief exceeding $5,000.

Anyone with information about the incident is asked to contact the Moosomin RCMP at 306-435-3361 or Crime Stoppers at 1-800-222-8477.