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A 15-year-old boy is being tried as an adult at Court of Queen’s Bench in Saskatoon for allegedly trying to kill a man by slashing his throat and hitting him in the head with a frying pan.

The teen is charged with attempted murder and unlawful confinement. His identity is banned from publication unless a sentencing hearing takes place.

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In his opening statement, prosecutor Evan Thompson said police arrived just before 7 a.m. on April 4, 2016 to an apartment on Main Street East, where Daryl Weber had been stabbed and hit in the head multiple times. The victim told police his attacker lived in the same apartment.

Thompson said a knife found in the youth’s apartment is believed to have been one of the weapons.

Crime scene photos showed blood on the floor near Weber’s door and on his bed, walls and chair. An officer with the forensic identification unit testified she was told to look for frying pans and knives as possible weapons.