Daily BrewDelta man detained after amazing crime spree involving three stabbings, two carjackings
It's very lucky that violent criminal rampage that ranged over three Vancouver-area jurisdictions Sunday night didn't end up with somebody killed.
A man in his 30s from suburban Delta, B.C., is in custody after a Sunday-night rampage left a half-dozen people injured.
It began in Richmond, just south of Vancouver around suppertime Sunday, RCMP Insp. Tim Shields told CBC News.
"A male driving a car at a very high rate of speed in Richmond on Highway 91 rear-ended a minivan that contained three people, sending it cartwheeling and rolling down the highway," said Shields. "The man who caused the collision ended up taking off on foot."
The three occupants of the minivan, including two young children, were taken to hospital with non-life-threatening injuries, the Vancouver Province reported.
The driver who caused the accident fled on foot to a nearby neighbourhood, where he knocked on the door of one house. When the homeowner, a man in his 60s, answered the door he was stabbed and the suspect stole his car. The victim was hospitalized with serious wounds, the Province said.
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As Richmond RCMP were hunting for the assailant, a customer withdrawing money from an ATM at an east Vancouver bank was stabbed several times, receiving superficial wounds that were treated by paramedics, Vancouver police said in a news release.
Just minutes later, the car stolen in Richmond had a head-on collision with a car two blocks from the ATM attack. When the driver of another car stopped to offer help, the suspect slashed at him and his wife through the open window and attempted to carjack them.
The couple, whose young children were in the back seat, managed to drive away, though they, too, needed treatment in hospital for their wounds.
The suspect then ran across the street to a busy service station and carjacked a Honda Civic. A brief video posted on YouTube and broadcast by news outlets purports to show the car racing away.
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CBC News said the car was spotted later by an RCMP cruiser in Surrey. The suspect tried to escape by driving across a field but smashed up the car and fled on foot.
RCMP search dogs tracked him to a heavily wooded ravine and Mounties arrested him. The Delta resident, who as they say was well known to police, was scheduled to appear in court Monday for a long list of charges.
"This is a very rare occurrence where we see an out-of-control and extremely violent crime spree involving three stabbings, two carjackings, a home invasion spread out across three cities in the Lower Mainland," Shields told CBC News.
