Vancouver Attack

• Toronto renews festival safety funding in wake of Lapu-Lapu Day attack in Vancouver

  Toronto will allocate $2.1 million this year to help festivals stay secure, after 11 people were killed in a vehicle ramming at Vancouver's Lapu Lapu Day festival in April. 

  Canada

  May 26, 2025
  
• Video shows shocking assault on Crown prosecutor outside B.C. courthouse

  Kenyon Thomas Lavallee was sentenced to one year in jail, with an order that he return to Manitoba to serve out his probation once his jail time was up.

  Crime

  Dec 2, 2024
  
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• Suspect charged in ‘random’ Vancouver attacks that left 1 dead, 1 with a severed hand

  Court documents show Brendan Colin McBride, 34, of White Rock has been charged with murder and aggravated assault in Wednesday's apparently random attacks.

  Crime

  Sep 5, 2024
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• Stabbing in downtown Vancouver sends man to hospital

  A motive for a stabbing in downtown Vancouver Wednesday night remains under investigation, and Vancouver police have not yet made an arrest.

  Crime

  Jul 20, 2023
• ‘All in blood’: Vancouver delivery worker describes terrifying random stabbing

  Hamidullah Habibi, 26, suffered multiple stab wounds, including to his chest and throat, while dropping a meal off in Chinatown around 6 p.m. on Sept. 11.

  Crime

  Sep 26, 2022
• Vancouver police looking for baby’s family after random attack

  Witnesses said the baby and a few adults were walking in the area of Davie Street and Bidwell Street around 4:30 p.m. when a man threw a glass bottle at the stroller.

  Crime

  Jun 30, 2022
• Exchange student sucker punched in latest Vancouver stranger attack, police say

  Vancouver police said the victim was walking on the street when a man approached her and attacked her in the city's latest stranger attack.

  Crime

  Mar 28, 2022
• Man wanted after random assault of woman in downtown Vancouver in January

  Vancouver police have released a video of a suspect who allegedly punched a woman in the face for no reason on Jan. 19, in the hopes someone will come forward and identify him.

  Crime

  Mar 18, 2021
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• Men accused of violently attacking elderly Vancouver woman appear in court

  Pascal Bouthillette, 41, and Sandy Parisian, 47, are accused of attacking 78-year-old Usha Singh, who died of her injuries a few days later in hospital.

  Crime

  Feb 16, 2021
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• ‘I think my hat saved my life’: Victim of random machete attack in Vancouver speaks

  William Johnson, 52, said he was hit over the head with a machete outside the Blenz coffee shop near Granville and Nelson streets on New Year's Eve.

  Crime

  Jan 6, 2021