Vancouver police have arrested a suspect accused of killing one man and leaving another with “life-altering injuries” in what is being described as a pair of unprovoked downtown stranger attacks Wednesday morning.
The first victim, a man in his 50s, was attacked near Cathedral Square at Richards and Dunsmuir streets around 7:30 a.m.
Police said he was attacked with a knife and “was bleeding from the head and had suffered a severed hand.” He was taken to hospital and is expected to survive.
Police were called to West Georgia and Hamilton streets minutes later, where a second man was attacked. He died at the scene.
Investigators obtained images of the suspect and confirmed the two attacks were linked.
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Officers located the suspect, a 34-year-old White Rock man, on Habitat Island near the Olympic Village just after 9 a.m., where someone had reported he was behaving erratically and had approached and yelled at a stranger.
The suspect is currently in the Vancouver police jail.
Anyone who witnessed the attacks or has further information is asked to contact Vancouver police at 604-717-2500..
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