{"id":118983,"date":"2025-09-04T09:51:15","date_gmt":"2025-09-04T09:51:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/118983\/"},"modified":"2025-09-04T09:51:15","modified_gmt":"2025-09-04T09:51:15","slug":"violent-offender-charged-with-attempted-murder-after-man-randomly-stabbed-at-canadian-tire-edmonton","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/118983\/","title":{"rendered":"Violent offender charged with attempted murder after man randomly stabbed at Canadian Tire &#8211; Edmonton"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t\tDescrease article font size<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\tIncrease article font size<\/p>\n<p>A man with a history of violent attacks has been accused of randomly stabbing a shopper outside a <a href=\"https:\/\/globalnews.ca\/tag\/canadian-tire\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Canadian Tire<\/a> in north Edmonton.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/70c8fc80.png\" alt=\"\" style=\"position:absolute;width:1px;height:1px\" referrerpolicy=\"no-referrer-when-downgrade\"\/><\/p>\n<p>The attack happened last week in the Castle Downs area, on the morning of Thursday, Aug. 28.<\/p>\n<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/globalnews.ca\/tag\/edmonton-police-service\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Edmonton Police Service<\/a> said officers responded to an assault around 9:30 a.m. at the store near 96 Street and 162 Avenue.<\/p>\n<p>As a 64-year-old man was leaving Canadian Tire and loading his purchases into his vehicle, police said he was approached by an stranger who stabbed him and then fled on a bicycle.<\/p>\n<p>The victim was taken to hospital with serious injuries. Police said the two men were not known to one another, and the attack was unprovoked.<\/p>\n<p>Police said witnesses were able to describe the suspect, who was later found a few blocks away on an Edmonton Transit Service bus near Castle Downs Road and 104 Street.<\/p>\n<p>Story continues below advertisement<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\tA man was stabbed outside the Castle Downs Canadian Tire near 96 Street and 162 Avenue in north Edmonton on Thursday, Aug. 28.\t\t\t\t <\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\tGlobal News\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>Nathan Joshua Piche, 33, has been charged with attempted murder, aggravated assault, assault with a weapon, and possessing a weapon for a dangerous purpose.<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" width=\"170\" height=\"225\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/1756402221_230_national.jpg\" alt=\"Get the day's top news, political, economic, and current affairs headlines, delivered to your inbox once a day.\"\/><\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\tGet daily National news<\/p>\n<p>Get the day&#8217;s top news, political, economic, and current affairs headlines, delivered to your inbox once a day.<\/p>\n<p>The Edmonton Police Service said Piche has a history of violent offences, including a manslaughter conviction <a href=\"https:\/\/globalnews.ca\/news\/4274571\/edmonton-suspicious-death-homicide\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">after he stabbed a man in west Edmonton on June 10, 2018<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>That stabbing happened at an apartment building near 115 Avenue and 124 Street, where a 36-year-old man was found with significant injuries.<\/p>\n<p>\n\t\tTrending Now\n\t<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t<a href=\"https:\/\/globalnews.ca\/news\/11388991\/canada-post-cupw-negotiations-stall-september-2\/\" class=\"c-posts__inner\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" class=\"c-posts__thumbnail\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/1756979474_651_5b2e5d5068019eae601dc381d5e00ebe558c65df01c9cff7d85eb2138ecb5421_36f2f7.jpg\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"336\" height=\"224\" alt=\"\"\/><\/p>\n<p>\n\t\t\t\t\tCanada Post says no more meetings currently scheduled with union\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t<a href=\"https:\/\/globalnews.ca\/news\/11389172\/crown-royal-doug-ford-pours-bottle-out\/\" class=\"c-posts__inner\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" class=\"c-posts__thumbnail\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/1756979475_924_Ford-Crown-Royal-2.jpg\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"336\" height=\"224\" alt=\"\"\/><\/p>\n<p>\n\t\t\t\t\tFord dumps Crown Royal bottle in protest of plant closure: \u2018They\u2019re hurting Ontario\u2019\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Police performed first aid, but the man was pronounced dead at the scene by paramedics. His death was Edmonton\u2019s 15th homicide of 2018.<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\tEdmonton police investigate a death in apartment suite near 115 Avenue and 124 Street, Monday, June 11, 2018.\t\t\t\t <\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\tPaul Rampersaud, Global News\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe accused has repeatedly been convicted of violence, drug and weapons-related offences dating back to 2008, and has demonstrated a pattern of failing to comply with conditions,\u201d said acting Insp. Eric Stewart with the EPS investigations branch.<\/p>\n<p>Story continues below advertisement<\/p>\n<p>EPS said as of Wednesday afternoon, Piche was in custody pending a bail hearing process.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cPolice are working with Alberta Crown Prosecution Service to advocate for his detention in the interest of public safety,\u201d Stewart said.<\/p>\n<p>\n\t\t\tMore on Crime<br \/>\n\t\t\tMore videos\n\t\t<\/p>\n<p>\n\t\t&amp;copy 2025 Global News, a division of Corus Entertainment Inc.\t<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Descrease article font size Increase article font size A man with a history of violent attacks has been&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":118984,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[49,48,16984,2169,17442,17443,66310,44],"class_list":["post-118983","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-canada","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-canadian-tire","tag-crime","tag-edmonton-crime","tag-edmonton-police-service","tag-nathan-piche","tag-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/118983","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=118983"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/118983\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/118984"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=118983"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=118983"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=118983"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}