Sucker Punch

• Alberta man handed 18 months for string of Vancouver ‘sucker punch’ attacks

  In handing down the sentence on Friday, B.C. Provincial Court Judge Susan Sangha said the community had been "understandably shocked and frightened" by Zachary Shettell's assaults.

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  Jul 4, 2025
  
• Alberta man should serve 18 months for string of Vancouver sucker punches: Crown

  The Crown says Zachary Shettell should face an additional two months of probation once his jail time is up for the three attacks in five days in late November. 

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  Jun 23, 2025
  
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• Suspect in Vancouver sucker punch attack now charged with 3 stranger assaults

  Zachary Tyrell Shettell is charged in an attack on Nov. 28 where a random victim was punched and knocked to the ground on West Georgia Street in downtown Vancouver.

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  Dec 9, 2024
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• Kelowna, B.C. strip club manager gets $90K after blinding 2019 sucker punch

  David Habib, a longtime fixture of Kelowna strip club Liquid Zoo, took one of the bar's patrons to court for a late-night incident that ended in his injury.

  Crime

  Apr 18, 2023
• Former North Okanagan man awarded $200K after strip club sucker punch

  Justice Dennis K Hori awarded Cameron Alexander McRae $200,000 in damages for injuries incurred May 19, 2013 at Kelowna strip club

  Crime

  Dec 21, 2022
• Woman ‘sucker-punched’ in downtown Vancouver by stranger

  The 29-year-old was walking near Cambie and Pender streets around 6:30 p.m. when a man approached and punched her, knocking her to the ground. 

  Crime

  Oct 13, 2022
• Penticton man serving 5 years for beach assault pleads guilty to mischief, threat, breaching curfew

  "I'm really trying to get my life together and get things in perspective so I can get out of jail (and) have a life in society without any problems," he said. 

  Crime

  Sep 14, 2021
• Octopuses filmed sucker-punching fish — sometimes out of ‘spite’

  An octopus will use 'directed explosive arm movements' to control fish when they’re hunting together in the Red Sea, a new study shows.

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  Dec 23, 2020
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• B.C. man suffers skull fracture in alleged sucker punch outside Vancouver bar

  "The injury sustained shattered a bone beneath his eye, a large fracture and lacerations, and of course bruising to the eye itself," said the victim's mother.

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  Oct 28, 2019
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• Synth-pop sensation Sigrid talks love for Canada, debut album ‘Sucker Punch’

  Sigrid took the time to share some of her funniest stories and discuss her debut album, 'Sucker Punch,' with Global News ahead of a performance in Toronto.

  Entertainment

  Sep 27, 2019