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Trial booked for man charged in Anders shooting

Mar 28, 2018 | 2:35 PM

Trial has been scheduled for a man charged in a shooting in the Anders neighbourhood last fall that sent a 23-year-old man to hospital.

The incident took place during the noon hour on Sept. 12, 2017 when the victim was shot after interrupting a break in at a home on Asmundsen Avenue.

Police say the assailant was carrying a short-barrel small calibre firearm and a machete at the time of the incident. The victim suffered a non-life-threatening gunshot wound to his back and a number of cuts during a struggle with the suspect.

Darren Curtis Lagrelle, 21, faces charges of aggravated assault, uttering threats, robbery with weapon, and breaking and entering.

Lagrelle entered not guilty pleas last week in Red Deer Provincial Court. He remains in custody and will face trial by judge alone on Sept. 7, 2018.

In Feb. 2017, Lagrelle was handed a three-year prison sentence, which included credit for time spent in custody prior to pleading guilty, and a lifetime firearms ban for an incident at a north Red Deer hotel in 2015 where a man was held at gunpoint and had the word “Snitch” burned into his chest with a hot knife.

(Troy Gillard)