A woman is in custody following the stabbing of a stranger with a needle, Vancouver police say.
It was reported that the victim was stabbed with a hypodermic needle by someone she did not know while leaving a coffee shop in the city's downtown core.
The 23-year-old woman was stabbed as she left a coffee shop near Main and East Pender streets Wednesday afternoon, police said in a news release the next day. Officers said they believe the woman may have been followed out of the café, then confronted by the suspect "who then stabbed her with the dirty needle," Vancouver Police Sgt. Steve Addison said Thursday of the incident in Chinatown.Addison said investigators don't know what substance was in the syringe, and therefore aren't sure whether there will be any long-term health impacts as a result.
She has not been identified as no charges have been approved at this time. The investigation is ongoing, and the suspect has been released from police custody on a promise to appear in court at a later date.
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