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A 26-year-old St. Stephen man has been charged following two incidents involving a machete.
In a release from the RCMP, officers responded to reports of a person in mental distress with a weapon outside a Ross Avenue home on Thursday, September 16, at approximately 4 a.m.
Police said they were confronted by a man armed with a machete, who refused to drop it when told to do so.
Due to the altercation, an RCMP officer discharged a firearm, and the man was taken to hospital with a gunshot wound.
Later on, police learned the same man allegedly attacked a 29-year-old man with a machete at a home near Ross Avenue earlier in the day.
Jacob Joseph Lawrence Hanley was taken into custody and is scheduled to appear in court on October 18th. He has been charged with two counts of assaulting a peace officer and one count of assault with a weapon.
The investigation is ongoing.
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