Two teens facing firearms charges after a 19-year-old was shot in a home on Aamjiwnaang First Nation just before Christmas were released on lease.
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“He’s lucky. If it was a foot away in either direction it would have resulted in a different outcome,” assistant Crown attorney Mikesh Mistry said during Jacob Oliver’s bail hearing.
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Sarnia police said the teen was taken to hospital with non-life-threatening injuries following the Dec. 20 incident inside a home on White Circle in the First Nation south of Sarnia.
Oliver, 19, was charged with unauthorized possession of a firearm and careless use of a firearm and Aiden Ransom-Oliver, 19, was charged with unauthorized possession of a firearm, careless use of a firearm, possessing a prohibited device or ammunition, and carelessly storing a firearm, weapon, prohibited device or ammunition, police said.
Oliver was released two days later and Ransom-Oliver was released Wednesday, both on $2,000 lease.
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During Oliver’s Dec. 22 bail hearing, Tristen Nahmabin said he heard a loud bang and, believing he was shot, screamed in pain and fear as his shoulder went numb. Three suspects fled — the third wasn’t identified — and Nahmabin was taken to hospital and treated for the injury, which Mistry said mostly grazed his shoulder but was also closed to leading to a different outcome.
The weapon wasn’t recovered, but police found a bag with .22 caliber ammunition.
Justice of the peace Pauline Bessegato agreed to release Oliver, but with a daily curfew between 10 pm and 6 am unless he’s working or with his father and surety, Jamie Maracle. Oliver and Maracle pledged $1,000 each.
Bessegato bailed Oliver his bail plan was an extremely high form of release for someone so young and with no prior criminal record.
“I can’t stress that enough,” she said.
While out on bail, Oliver can’t have weapons or contact Nahmabin or his co-accused.
“Even a simple, ‘Merry Christmas,’ could land you right back in there. Understood?” Bessegato warned him.
Ransom-Oliver was staying with Oliver and Maracle prior to the incident, but now he’ll be living with his mother, who is his safety. He has the same curfew and is banned from weapons and contacting four other people in addition to Oliver and Nahmabin.
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