Vancouver’s police chief says the suspect in a pair of “unprovoked stranger attacks” in the city’s downtown that left one man dead and another with a severed hand was on probation for a 2023 assault and had more than 60 previous police interactions.
Chief Constable Adam Palmer says the suspect, a 34-year-old White Rock man, appears to be “very troubled” and police are looking into whether mental health was a factor in this morning’s “horrific” attacks.
