By Sheldon Spackman

Oct. 17-20, 2023.

Trial scheduled for pair charged in central Alberta shooting

Aug 22, 2022 | 9:56 AM

Two men charged in a central Alberta shooting last year that sent one man to hospital with life-threatening injuries are going to trial next year.

William Edgar Littlechild, 23, of the Ermineskin Cree Nation, and Zachary Dre Bishop Potts, 28, of Wetaskiwin, are scheduled for trial in Wetaskiwin Court of Queen’s Bench from Oct. 17-20, 2023.

The pair were ordered to stand trial following a preliminary hearing in Wetaskiwin on July 18, 2022.

Littlechild and Potts were charged following an incident on Dec. 5, 2021, when at approximately 3:00 a.m., Maskwacis RCMP were dispatched to a rural residence on the Samson Cree Nation after receiving information that a male had been shot.

Upon arrival, police located the male suffering from a severe gunshot wound. Mounties say the male was treated on scene by EMS and then transported to an area hospital with life threatening injuries. Witnesses identified two suspects who fled the scene prior to police arriving.

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Members of the Maskwacis General Investigation Section (GIS) took over the investigation and identified two suspects. Over the next 72 hours, Maskwacis GIS along with members of the Wetaskiwin RCMP, Wetaskiwin Police Dog Services (PDS), and Red Deer Forensic Identification Services (FIS) would locate and arrest the two suspects.

The suspects were both charged with attempted murder with a firearm, break and enter, uttering threats, and assault.

Littlechild was also charged with unauthorized possession of a firearm, knowing possession is unauthorized, and three counts of fail to comply with a release order.

Littlechild was also arrested on outstanding warrants out of Maskwacis and the Wetaskiwin RCMP for various weapons offences. Potts was also charged with an additional count of unauthorized possession of a firearm.