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A man charged in connection with a mysterious arrow death had a high-profile brush with the law nearly a decade ago when an officer fired at him 19 times in a residential neighbourhood, The Free Press has learned.

Police announced charges against two more people – one of whom was arrested over the weekend – last week in the death of Brian Maksoud, 46, who died Feb. 5 from an arrow wound.

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Paul O’Connell, 47, is charged with being an accessory after the fact to aggravated assault.

Court records confirm O’Connell is the same man whose flight from police on Aug. 12, 2009, prompted an officer to fire 19 shots, striking three homes, two sheds and a fence in an east-end neighbourhood.

O’Connell, 37 at the time, had robbed a sub shop and two gas stations during a five-hour crime spree before crashing a stolen SUV into a streetlight on Tweedsmuir Avenue, east of Highbury Avenue and Trafalgar Street, during a police pursuit.