Eight-week trial set next year for suspect in Edmonton attack, officer stabbing

Eight-week trial set next year for suspect in Edmonton attack, officer stabbing | iNFOnews.ca
An eight-week jury trial has been scheduled in the fall of 2019 for a man charged with attempted murder after an Edmonton police officer was attacked. Abdulahi Hasan Sharif faces 12 charges, including a new one of aggravated assault, related to the attack outside a football game last September. Sharif is shown in an Edmonton Police Service handout photo. Sharif has been charged in an attack which saw an Edmonton officer stabbed and four people injured when they were hit by a rental truck fleeing police. THE CANADIAN PRESS/HO-Edmonton Police Service, *MANDATORY CREDIT* A

EDMONTON – A jury trial has been scheduled next year for a man accused of trying to kill an Edmonton police officer and running down pedestrians.

Abdulahi Hasan Sharif faces 12 charges related to the attack last year.

Sharif appeared via video link in Court of Queen’s Bench to get a new lawyer and set the eight-week trial date.

Court heard the trial will run from Oct. 15 to Dec. 6, 2019.

Police have said an officer was struck by a speeding car then stabbed outside an Edmonton Eskimos football game in September.

Hours later, a cube van sped through the downtown, injuring four pedestrians.

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