After a year of unprovoked stranger assaults, a Vancouver Provincial Court judge captured the mood of many Vancouverites as she sentenced a man for one such attack.
Three weeks later, Vancouverites were horrified to hear of a 25-year-old Mexican visitor to Canada being stabbed by a stranger in a downtown Tim Hortons.Then, on March 10, a pair of Port Moody teenagers were charged with aggravated assault after an alleged machete incident at Burquitlam SkyTrain station.
On June 1, police said a man used his car to ram a pedestrian on the gas station's property and then began waving a machete. Kenneth Stephen Solowan, 37, was arrested on Aug. 10 near Chinatown and charged with two counts of aggravated assault.One July 7, Gastown tourists got more than photos of the Steam Clock when they saw a man running through the streets brandishing a machete.
On Sept. 27, police reported a 19-year-old student was walking through downtown Vancouver when a man she did not know hit her over the back of the head with a pole and used a racial slur before fleeing the area, all the while making offensive comments. Bryce Michael Flores-Bebington faces charges of assault and uttering threats in relation to an Oct. 2 incident. He is also charged with two counts of sexual assault in relation to incidents in Vancouver on July 6 and 7.
The report said smaller communities did not have the same frequency of attacks as larger cities but added most incident involve mental health issues.
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