Court proceedings arising from a violent robbery in Red Deer have been adjourned for three weeks to allow further psychiatric testing of one of the two suspects.
Eric Michael Ayotte and Jeffrey Lyle Geary are jointly charged with multiple weapons offences in connection with an incident at the West Park Fas Gas on Sept. 11.
Red Deer City RCMP say store clerk Jaysen Arancon Reyes, 26, suffered shotgun wounds to his face and hands during a robbery.
Reyes remains in treatment at a Calgary hospital.
Geary, 30, and Ayotte, 29, are jointly charged with using a sawed-off shotgun in a robbery attempt, possession of a prohibited weapon for a dangerous purpose, illegal possession of a prohibited weapon that was loaded and ready to fire and possession of a firearm obtained by crime.
Geary is also charged with attempted murder and one additional weapons offence.
Ayotte is charged alone with possessing a weapon while prohibited.
Currently in custody, both men were brought before Judge David Plosz in Red Deer provincial court for pleas on Thursday.
No pleas were entered, however, because one of the psychiatric reports requested for Geary had not yet been completed.
Geary has been found fit to stand trial, but an assessment has not yet been performed to determine whether he has a mental disorder that would make him not criminally responsible for the offences with which he is charged, said Crown prosecutor Jason Snider.
Both men are due back in court on Nov. 29 to enter their pleas.