A 50-year-old has been charged with aggravated assault after he stabbed another male in Jasper last week.

In the early hours of Saturday, October 7, Jasper RCMP responded to a call from emergency responders who reported they were attending to a victim with life-threatening injuries, including puncture wounds to the ribs.

The male was transported by STARS air ambulance, according to Cpl Mathew Howell, of the Alberta RCMP Media Group. On October 11 Howell said the victim’s recovery is “going slow, but good.”

Howell said with the assistance of Hinton RCMP officers, Jasper RCMP found the location of the assault and, soon thereafter, found and arrested the male responsible.

Howell confirmed it was a stabbing.

As a result of the investigation, 50-year-old Dallas Meddins, a resident of Edmonton, was charged with aggravated assault.

Meddins was brought before a Justice of the Peace, who remanded him into custody until his next court date on October 12, at the Alberta Court of Justice in Jasper.