Man charged in machete attacks in Vancouver rooming house
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A person has been charged after a weekend machete assault inside a Granville Avenue rooming home that left 4 folks severely injured.
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Ibrahim Abdela Bakhit, 48, has been charged with one depend of aggravated assault, assault with a weapon, and possession of a weapon for a harmful function, stated Vancouver police. He stays in custody till his subsequent court docket date on Aug. 22.
Bakhit allegedly used a machete to attack four people inside a rooming house within the 900-block Granville Avenue within the coronary heart of the leisure district at round 10 p.m. Saturday.
Earlier than that, he allegedly set his suite within the rooming home on hearth.
When Vancouver cops arrived, the suspect was nonetheless armed with the weapon, stated police spokeswoman Const. Tania Visintin on Sunday. Police fired and the suspect was injured.
He sustained critical, non-life-threatening accidents and was taken to hospital.
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A day after the assault, Vancouver Mayor Kennedy Stewart known as for reform of the justice system, saying town has been “bearing the brunt — and ensuing tragedies — of an under-resourced psychological well being and justice system that endangers the protection of the neighborhood, first responders and regulation enforcement.”
Stewart additionally known as for a response to the “dire want” for extra psychological well being companies.
Stewart’s assertion didn’t go over effectively with one among his mayoral challengers within the fall election. On Twitter, ABC Vancouver candidate Ken Sim known as it “irritating and disingenuous.”
“Since your first day as mayor, you’ve created a tradition of hostility in the direction of the police, whose board of administrators you chair,” wrote Sim. “You tried to chop police funding solely to have it’s restored by (Public Security) Minister Mike Farnworth.
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“And now, after we needs to be working with the provincial and federal governments to safe funding for psychological well being companies, you as an alternative attempt to go the buck and blame them for the issues we see as we speak.”
Present Vancouver Coun. Sarah Kirby-Yung, who’s working for re-election on the ABC slate, concurred. “Management is about doing what you are able to do and dealing collaboratively with others,” stated Kirby-Yung. “Not recasting the reality and passing the buck. These are robust points that require recognition, honesty and dedication.”
Stewart didn’t truly attempt to reduce the police finances. In late 2020, within the depths of the pandemic, he tried to scale back a proposed finances improve, however that lower was appealed by the police board and the province restored $5.7 million in funding earlier this 12 months.
— With a file from Joseph Ruttle
chchan@postmedia.com
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