Police have arrested one man in connection with a stabbing that happened near Bowen Park in Nanaimo on Friday.
Police, firefighters and B.C. Ambulance paramedics responded to multiple 911 calls about a stabbing at about 10:20 a.m. The incident happened on Acacia Avenue near Bowen Road.
“We had a report of a stabbing on the 100 block of Acacia,” said Const. Gary O’Brien, Nanaimo RCMP spokesman. “We got on the scene and the victim was being attended to by bystanders. He was later taken to hospital with upper-body injuries. He said he’d been stabbed after an altercation.”
The suspect then fled the scene in a vehicle taken from a friend of the victim, according to O’Brien.
Witnesses John Keyzer and Matt Dowie became aware of a problem when a man in a bright yellow jacket was frantically trying to flag down traffic on Bowen Road.
“We were driving up Bowen and just before Wakesiah [Avenue] we noticed a young fellow in a luminous jacket. He flagged down two cars,” Keyzer said.
As Keyzer and Dowie rounded the block to try and lend help, they saw a car speed through a stop sign in front of them.
“So we then made a right turn and followed the car, which he then blew through the school zone, passing three cars and the stop sign. At that point we lost him and he made the right turn on Pine [Street],” Keyzer said.
Keyzer recorded the car speeding away on his dash cam, which he turned over to the RCMP.
The suspect and the vehicle were located by police at about 9 p.m. Friday at a home in south Nanaimo and taken into custody without incident, O’Brien said.
The suspect was scheduled to appear in Nanaimo provincial court yesterday to face charges that include assault causing bodily harm, assault with a weapon, uttering threats and theft of a motor vehicle.
The victim was treated at Nanaimo Regional General Hospital and released Friday.
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