Waterloo Regional Police say they are investigating two hate-motivated incidents which occurred in Kitchener and Waterloo earlier this week.
In the first incident, police say a teen was walking near Fischer-Hallman Road and Forest Hill Drive on Monday at around 1 p.m. when he was assaulted by a group of teens.
Police say the victim was left with minor injuries as a result of the attack, which police are treating as racially motivated.
Get breaking National news
A day later, at around 4:45 p.m., a second incident occurred on a Grand River Transit bus near Seagram Drive and University Avenue West in Waterloo.
Police say a passenger on the bus flashed an edged weapon at other passengers while yelling racial slurs at them.
Investigators have released a photo of a man they would like to speak to about this incident.
- Alberta judge denies effort to amend court challenge against province’s trans law
- Calgary police report more than 60 locker thefts at local recreation centres
- Ontario man who killed 3 children in drunk driving crash sentenced to 8 years
- Calgary man charged with murder of his children was in court Monday
They are asking anyone with information about either incident to call 519-570-9777 or Crime Stoppers at 1-800-222-8477.
Comments
Comments closed.
Due to the sensitive and/or legal subject matter of some of the content on globalnews.ca, we reserve the ability to disable comments from time to time.
Please see our Commenting Policy for more.