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Suspect arrested after SkyTrain video showed woman pushed to platform, hit with coffee

May 2: Metro Vancouver Transit Police search for the identity of a man wanted in connection to an assault on a Skytrain platform April 6. Video shows the victim getting hit by a coffee cup and being pushed to the ground – May 2, 2018

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The Metro Vancouver Transit Police have arrested a suspect following an April 6 incident that saw a woman having coffee tossed at her head before she was pushed to a SkyTrain platform at a New Westminster station.

He’s a 27-year-old Coquitlam resident, and he’s “well known to police.”

Video of the incident showed a woman trying to catch a train at about 10:45 a.m.

The doors closed before she could enter.

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Police believe that the woman may have accidentally bumped the suspect as she tried to catch the train.

The woman and a man can be seen talking before a coffee is thrown at her head and back.

She then approached the man who pushed her to the ground, her head ending up near the edge of the platform.

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File photo of a SkyTrain stopping at a station. Global News File

Transit police received several tips after they released video of the incident. A member of the public recognized him from media coverage.

They later arrested their suspect, who has not been identified publicly, at a Coquitlam hotel. He was later released on a promise to appear.

A charge of assault is being recommended in his case.

He’s supposed to appear in court on July 11, in New Westminster.

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  • With files from Amy Judd and John Daly, CKNW
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