Eighteen Tevin Palmer, an unemployed of 61 King Street, who the police alleged shot 21 year old Sean fisher, was charged with attempted murder when he appeared today before Senior Magistrate Sharon Fraser. Palmer was also charged with wounding and use of deadly means of harm.
The incident occurred around 8 p.m. on July 5, but Palmer was not detained until Friday, July 11. Fisher reported to the police that he was on Dean Street, across the next side from "Kick Down Fence", when a person dressed in full black whom he recognized as Palmer, approached him and pointed a sawed-off shotgun at him and fired a shot. Fisher said that he was shot in his abdomen and the left side of his buttocks. Fisher was taken to Karl Heusner Memorial Hospital where the doctor who examined and treated him classified his injury as wounding.
Due to the nature of the offences, Tevin Palmer was remanded into custody until August 29.
