Nathan Reeds was victim of June homicide
Preliminary hearings to be held in June and July in case against Joshua Knott
A father of three has been identified as Peterborough’s lone homicide victim in 2019.
Court records confirm Nathan Ryan Reeds, who died June 8, is the 40-year-old man city police said was killed after being struck in the head with a firearm on Stewart Street in Peterborough on June 7.
City police did not make the killing public at the time because of another ongoing police investigation involving the suspect.
Joshua Amos Knott, 33, of Stewart Street, was charged with manslaughter, assault causing bodily harm and assault with a weapon, city police first revealed on Wednesday.
Reeds had ties to the Lindsay area and was a brother to three sisters, and father of two daughters and a stepdaughter. According to police, some people were at a multi-unit residence on Stewart Street when a man assaulted Reeds.
Reeds left the home and, as a result of the assault, died the next day of his injuries, police said Wednesday.
Knott was arrested on June 23 after a man had barricaded himself at 294 Stewart St. The emergency response team had the area surrounded for hours.
Around 3:30 a.m., police issued an alert that Stewart Street was closed between Sherbrooke and Charlotte streets. The street reopened around 6 a.m. but police remained on scene until about 1 p.m. collecting evidence.
Knott has three preliminary hearing dates (June 23 and 24 and July 10) scheduled for the summer of 2020 in the Ontario Court of Justice in Peterborough, where a judge will determine if there’s enough evidence to send the case to trial in the Superior Court of Justice.
Further investigation led to firearm charges for Knott including weapons trafficking, unauthorized possession and possession contrary to probation order.
He appeared in court on Thursday in relation to these charges and waived a preliminary hearing, electing for a judge and jury trial.
His next appearance on those charges is Jan. 22 in Cobourg.