By: Naomi Larsen, Chetwynd Echo

MOBERLY LAKE – Eighteen-year-old Benjamin Fuchs has been charged with attempted murder following a stabbing over the weekend in Moberly Lake.

Chetwynd RCMP responded to a 911 call at the 5300 block of Lakeview Subdivision and upon arrival arrested Fuchs who had stabbed a Moberly Lake teenager several times in the head.

Fuchs appeared in Chetwynd Provincial Court on Wednesday (April 11).

“Anyone with further information in regards to this matter is asked to contact the RCMP at 250-788-9221 or Crimestoppers,” Cpl. Jim Toye of the Chetwynd RCMP said.

The victim uploaded a photo to his Facebook page showing one of his stitched up wounds and wrote he had been stabbed including once in the neck, once in the temple and once on top of his head. The fight, he said was over a girl.