Road-rage accused was stabbing victim

EDMONTON — A man accused of breaking a woman’s arms with a crowbar in what police have called a road-rage attack was himself the victim of a violent crime in 2014.

Jared Matthew Eliasson, 28, has been charged with attempted murder, possession of a dangerous weapon and aggravated assault.

Police said the 34-year-old woman was driving to her Edmonton home on Tuesday morning and honked her horn while passing a car that was stopped on a residential street.

When she got out of her vehicle, a man ran up and struck her on both arms with a crowbar. Police believe he was aiming at her head.

The woman was taken to hospital with serious injuries and is recovering from surgery.

Court records show that Eliasson and a friend were stabbed six times on July 12, 2014, while walking down an Edmonton street. Eliasson, 26 at the time, had injuries to his abdomen and chest and underwent surgery.

In his victim impact statement to police, Eliasson described how he suffered emotionally and physically.

“I experienced pain unlike [any] I ever previously experienced as a result of the attack, the surgery and recovery from my six wounds,” he wrote.

Eliasson said he was afraid to drive through the area where the attack occurred and found it difficult to trust people.

In 2016, Chase Holloway was convicted of aggravated assault and of possessing a dangerous weapon and was sentenced to five years in jail in connection with the attack.

News reports said Holloway had taken methamphetamine before the attack and had mistaken Eliasson and his friend for other people.

Belynda Schendzielorz, the sister of the woman who had her arms broken this week, has started a GoFundMe page to raise money to help cover some of her injured sibling’s bills.

Schendzielorz said her sister cannot use her arms or fingers for even simple tasks and could be off work for three months.

Eliasson is being held in custody and is to appear in court on Monday.