Three charged after Peace River jail attack leaves man in coma
Three men have been charged after a violent assault in an Alberta remand centre left an inmate in a coma, possibly needing ’round the clock care for the rest of his life.
Dylan Gogan was found bloodied and unconscious by corrections staff in his cell after the March 11 attack at the Peace River Correctional Centre.
His family said he suffered an axonal brain injury stemming from the attack.
The 28-year-old victim was put into a medically induced coma at the University hospital and was only last week flown back to his home province of Nova Scotia.
Gogan was in remand facing charges of attempted murder and aggravated assault after a man was stabbed in Grande Prairie.
Gogan’s fate was in limbo because Nova Scotia did not recognize him as a resident, since he had spent a majority of his time since 2017 in and out of correctional facilities in Alberta.
Four days after Postmedia published an appeal by Gogan’s family, he was flown back to his home province.
“I was so overwhelmed. It was everything just to be able to see him,” said his mother, Christine Arsenault, in an interview last week. “I hadn’t seen him in over two months and there was no way of communicating with him. My nerves couldn’t stand it much longer.”
Kyle Malcolm Beaver, 18, of Edmonton; Dylan Anthony Wyatt Moberley-Horseman, 25, of Peace River; and Herbert Charles Wanihadie, 33, of Grovedale are charged with one count each of aggravated assault. They remain in custody and are to appear March 26, 2019, in Peace River Court of Queen’s Bench.