WINNIPEG -- A man who was shot by an RCMP officer in northern Manitoba was being arrested on charges including assault and four counts of uttering threats.
The lawyer for Evan Matthew Cromarty says he was formally charged with those offences, as well as break and enter and weapons charges after the shooting that left him wounded.
Cromarty, who is 20, was shot in full view of children and families at a baseball tournament Sunday afternoon on the Norway House Cree First Nation.
Manitoba Justice has ordered an independent investigation into the shooting by the Alberta Serious Incident Response Team, known as ASIRT.
Cromarty's lawyer, Jody Ostapiw, says she has not seen details of the charges, but believes they stem from an alleged incident last weekend in Norway House.
The arrest comes two months after a separate case in which Cromarty pleaded guilty to being an accessory after the fact to aggravated assault, and was sentenced to time served.
That sentence stemmed from a Jan. 7, 2012 shooting that left two people injured. Cromarty and two others were charged, and Cromarty pleaded guilty to hiding a snowmobile used in the shooting.
"He was at a party. He knew what (other people) were going to do. He didn't agree to be part of it," Ostapiw told the sentencing hearing on May 7.
"But after the fact, someone asked him to go ... and move a Ski-Doo that had been parked there and hide it somewhere, and he did do that."
Ostapiw told the hearing Cromarty was intent on turning his life around. He had been expelled from school after Grade 8, she said, and he planned to return and get his high-school diploma.
Cromarty told the court he wanted to stay out of trouble.
"Sorry for what I took part in. I promise it'll never happen again."
