Victoria police are seeking witnesses to a stabbing in Centennial Square that left a man in hospital.
It happened around 6 p.m. Saturday in the pubic square, which is adjacent to Victoria City Hall.
According to police, a wounded man approached officers and said he’d been stabbed following a verbal confrontation with another man in the square.
A second man then allegedly chased the victim. The victim was taken to hospital where he was treated for non-life threatening injuries.
Police are looking for a Caucasian man with dreadlocks who was wearing a green shirt and a knife on his belt. The suspect also had a husky-type dog.
The second man is described as 25-30 years old, had long hair and was wearing aviator sunglasses.
Crime and violence around Centennial Square has become a hot-button issue in Victoria in recent months, and was a key motivation for the city to clear a homeless encampment from the property last week.
Get breaking National news
Councillors recently voted to allow the campers to return, but the city’s mayor says she’ll try and block that effort.
A recent undercover police operation broke up a suspected drug ring operating out of tents in the square, and resulted in the arrests of a dozen people. During the operation, one of the undercover officers was robbed.
Comments