RCMP charge man with attempted murder after hitting another man with stolen truck

An RCMP detachment can be seen in this file photo. (David Prisciak/CTV News)

The RCMP in Nova Scotia’s Pictou County has charged a man from Miramichi, N.B., with several offences, including attempted murder.

Police received information from a caller in New Brunswick just before 1 p.m. on Feb. 4, saying a person was struck by a vehicle, believed to be a stolen GMC Sierra from New Brunswick, in the Thorburn, N.S., area.

Officers patrolled the community but could not locate the victim or a GMC.

About an hour later, Pictou County District RCMP received a call that a man had been hit by a vehicle somewhere in MacPhersons Mills, N.S., on an unknown dead-end road.

Police searched the area and found an abandoned stolen GMC and an injured man on the roadway.

“After speaking to the man, who had suffered non-life-threatening injuries, investigators learned that he had observed someone taking his Chevrolet Silverado from his driveway,” reads a news release from RCMP.

“When he went outside to follow the truck’s tire tracks in the snow, he was struck twice by his stolen Silverado before the driver fled.”

Investigators learned the Chevrolet was heading towards Miramichi.

Around 1:30 p.m. the following day, officers with the Miramichi Police Force located the truck and arrested the driver.

Colin Joseph Williams, 35, has been charged with:

- attempted murder

- aggravated assault

- break and enter

- theft of a motor vehicle

- possession of stolen property

- driving while prohibited

- failure to comply with court order

Williams was taken back to Nova Scotia and remanded into custody.

He was scheduled to appear in Pictou provincial court Monday.

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