Brody Metallic and his friends were walking home on Wednesday evening on the Galloping Goose Trail in Langford B.C., when a stranger attacked them.
“We missed our bus to go back to my girlfriend’s house, so we decided to walk the Goose, which we do all the time,” he said.
“We just sat down for a brief second to take a breather, relax and whatnot, and all of a sudden, like 10 seconds of sitting there, we see this guy, a black figure come towards us, and he just started macing us down.”
Metallic said the four of them were stunned into silence for a few seconds but he was able to get up and try to take the mace from the man.
“That’s when I got stabbed,” he said.
“I was able to duck my head and make sure that I got no more mace in my eye, and I rolled,” Metallic said.
“I got the mace out of his hand. I was trying to wrestle it out, and I was just trying to lay down punches in his face because I knew he had something.”
Once he realized he had been stabbed, he rolled away from the man, out of the ditch and jumped up and yelled for the others to call 911.
Metallic was stabbed on his side, his back and his leg.
All four of the teens received treatment for the bear mace.
West Shore RCMP said they were called at 10:22 p.m. on Sept. 4 to the trail near Atkins Avenue and Westwind Drive and found that four young people had been sprayed with bear mace by a man wearing a balaclava and “carrying an edged weapon.”
A 32-year-old Langford man has been arrested and charged with eight offences.
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Kai Seppala, 32, was arrested outside a home a few minutes after the attack and has now been charged with assault with a weapon, assault causing bodily harm, possessing a weapon for a dangerous purpose and using a disguise while committing an offence.
He remains in custody and will appear in court in October.
Cpl. Nancy Saggar with West Shore RCMP said this was a completely random attack.
“We don’t know the motives here,” she added. “Certainly the youth here did nothing to provoke this.”
“I can tell you that random attacks like this — and this was truly a random stranger attack — are extremely rare,” Saggar said.
“We don’t generally see them. Normally, if there is an attack, the parties are known to each other.”
Paige McDougall, Metallic’s girlfriend, told Global News the four of them were reminiscing about the first day of school and hanging out when the attack happened.
When she was sprayed with bear mace she couldn’t see anything but she could hear her boyfriend yell that he had been stabbed.
“I’m freaking out,” she said. “I’m screaming. All I’m screaming is Brody, Brody, Brody, Brody. And I’m trying to run up to him and thank God my friend was there. She was holding me back. She held me back. I would have ran over him like I could have got hurt.”
McDougall said they are still processing what happened.
“It’s really difficult. It’s hard to leave the house, but our friends have been supportive.”
Metallic said he wanted to speak about what happened because he wants other victims to know there is support out there.
“If I’m able to say some words on air, I want to say some decent words for other people that could help them,” he said.
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