Man Who Shot Paul Serup , Charged With Attempted Murder

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Peterborough Ont.-  A 40 year old man has been remanded in custody,  charged with attempted murder  in Peterborough, Ontario after police responded to a stabbing in that City last month.  A 30 year old man had been stabbed once in the stomach. Charged in the incident is Wade Gielzecki who was living in that city.  He has been remanded in custody.

Gielzecki was released from the psychiatric facility in Port Coquitlam in January 2007,  after he was placed there  following a strange shooting of a man who had stopped to offer him help on highway 97 north on September 24^th, 2003.

Paul Serup was returning to Prince George when he came upon a truck overturned in the ditch on the highway about 12 kilometres south of Chetwynd. When Serup pulled over to help he was shot by Gielzecki who was  wielding a bow and arrow. Serup was struck in the face with the arrow,  which entered just under Serup’s lower lip, cutting through his throat and exiting through his neck.

Serup was able to pull the arrow out,  and get himself to hospital in Chetwynd, to seek medical attention.

The matter saw further light when  Victims Services in the B.C. at first said they would not pay for Serup to have his jaw and teeth replaced at a cost of $15,000 dollars. It was only after considerable public attention that the government moved to offer the financial assistance to Serup.

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