Police in Newfoundland say that a 32-year-old man is facing two counts of attempted murder after three people were attacked in St. John’s on Monday night.
Global News, which got the information from the Royal Newfoundland Constabulary (RNC), said that two women were taken to the hospital with serious injuries. One of them was said to be in critical condition.
The trouble started at an apartment building on Anspach Street in the west end of the city not long after 6:30 p.m.
Police say they got a lot of calls about a man banging on doors and yelling in the hallway. When the police got there, they found two women with what were called serious injuries and took them to the hospital.
While the police were still at the first scene, they got another report of a man being attacked nearby. Investigators think this was connected to the first incident.
Officers searched the area and quickly found and arrested a suspect. SSBCrack News, which got its information from the RNC, published a detailed summary of the case.
It says that the man was found and arrested before 9 p.m. and has been in the St. John’s city lockup since then.
The accused is also said to have committed a long list of other violent crimes in addition to the two counts of attempted murder.
According to a report from the police, there are two counts of aggravated assault, three counts of assault with a weapon, two counts of assault causing bodily harm, and one count of making threats.
The man’s name has not been made public, and none of the claims have been tested in court. On Tuesday, he is supposed to go to provincial court.
The RNC didn’t say much about what happened during the attacks, like whether the victims and the accused knew each other or what might have caused the violence.
Local news reports say that as things got worse, police sent out a shelter-in-place alert on social media to people living near Anspach Street, Salter Place, Eastaff Street, and Hogan Street, telling them to stay inside while they searched the area. That warning was taken down after the arrest.
