Four people charged in Dartmouth stabbing
Posted Feb 3, 2016 05:29:54 PM.
Last Updated Feb 3, 2016 06:12:14 PM.
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HALIFAX – Regional police have charged four people in connection to a stabbing early Tuesday morning in Dartmouth that sent two men to hospital.
An officer in the Primrose Street area was approached by a resident around 2:30 a.m. and informed that two people had been stabbed in a nearby residence.
An 18-year-old man and 49-year-old man were found suffering from stab wounds and were taken to Dartmouth General Hospital with what police called non-life threatening injuries.
Police said a short time after that, they arrested three males and a woman in the Catherine Street and Farrell Road area of Dartmouth.
All four were charged on Wednesday.
A 16-year-old male youth is charged with two counts of assault with a weapon, two counts of robbery, break and enter and possession of a weapon for a dangerous purpose.
He was scheduled to appear in Halifax Youth Court on Wednesday.
Christopher Steven Slaunwhite, Natasha Irene Lee White, both 20, and Theodore Payne St. Onge, 24, are also charged in the incident.
All three are charged with two counts of assault with a weapon, two counts of assault with a weapon causing bodily harm, two counts of robbery, two counts of possession of a weapon for a dangerous purpose and break and enter.
Slaunwhite is facing an additional two counts of breach of probation, while White is also charged with one breach of probation.
Slaunwhite, White and St. Onge were scheduled to appear in Halifax Provincial Court on Wednesday.
Police said the investigation remains ongoing.
