A 29-year-old woman is facing a manslaughter charge following an alleged assault in Vancouver’s club district that resulted in the death of Lauren Lindsay McLellan in August.
The assault happened outside the Caprice Nightclub on Granville Street just before 2 a.m. on Aug. 11, according to police.
On Friday morning, Vancouver police said Samantha Doolan has been charged with one count of manslaughter and arrested.
Calling the incident a tragic set of circumstances, Vancouver Police Const. Brian Montague said the assault happened on the street after a very brief altercation between McLellan and Doolan inside the club. During the assault, Montague said McLellan “went to the ground” and the allegedly continued until nightclub staff intervened.
Doolan, who was with another woman at the time, then allegedly fled the area on foot and about 30 minutes after the assault, the pair was located in Gastown and arrested by police.
McLellan, 28, was taken to hospital in critical condition suffering from head injuries. She did not survive and was pronounced dead the same day.
Police said at the time of the assault, both Doolan and her friend were interviewed, and released from custody pending further investigation and results of an autopsy.
The victim and suspect did not know one another and Montague would not disclose what started the altercation inside the club.
Since the incident happened in August, investigators have been working on how everything played out the morning of Aug. 11.
This death was counted as Vancouver’s fifth homicide of 2016.
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