20 months in jail for New Year’s Eve stabbing

By Peggy Revell on September 28, 2017.

A 20-month jail sentence was handed down Tuesday to a man arrested for a New Year’s Eve stabbing outside a north-end pub.

Jerrad Wayne Schneider, 32, entered a guilty plea at the end of June to a charge of aggravated assault, while the agreed statement of facts was read into the court record at the time.

Schneider had been in custody since the arrest, save for a short period between his plea and when he re-entered custody earlier this month, as per plans laid out by defence and Crown. He was given 285 days credit toward his sentence for time served.

He will also be on 18 months of probation following his release.

The events in question took place on Dec. 31, 2016, and police were called about 10:40 p.m. to dispute at a 20th Street NE pub that started inside and continued outside.

Schneider and a woman he was with got into an altercation with bar staff after they were found kissing in the women’s washroom. The couple, admittedly drunk and on drugs, then got into an argument with a second woman outside, and a 37-year-old man intervened and told them to go away.

The verbal confrontation escalated when, according to Schneider’s statement, his female acquaintance moved to kick the man in the groin. The man turned away, but was stabbed in the back by Schneider using a knife he carried.

Schneider fled, throwing the knife in a yard en route to a nearby residence where he was arrested.

The man who was stabbed suffered a two-inch deep wound near the middle of his back, but the knife missed vital organs.

A woman from Calgary was also arrested during the incident and charged with two counts of common assault and released on bail in early January.