Woman stabbed with hypodermic needle by stranger in Vancouver’s Chinatown
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A 41-year-old lady stabbed with a hypodermic needle is the most recent sufferer in a rash of stranger assaults in downtown Vancouver.
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The girl was strolling close to Major and East Pender streets in Chinatown round 4:20 p.m. Tuesday when she was assaulted, mentioned police.
The attacker allegedly caught a hypodermic needle within the lady’s leg, mentioned Vancouver Police Division spokesman Const. Steve Addison. “It seems there was no prior interplay between the sufferer and the suspect, and the assault was fully unprovoked.”
The sufferer contacted police instantly and saved a watch on her alleged attacker till officers arrived.
Kayla Elizabeth Kelly, 27, has been charged with assault with a weapon. She is scheduled to seem in downtown neighborhood courtroom on March 22.
An identical incident occurred in November when a 23-year-old lady was stabbed within the leg by a girl wielding a unclean needle close to East Pender and Abbott streets. In that incident, Cathleen Cunningham, 35, was charged with aggravated assault.
