{"id":518748,"date":"2026-03-06T19:17:07","date_gmt":"2026-03-06T19:17:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/518748\/"},"modified":"2026-03-06T19:17:07","modified_gmt":"2026-03-06T19:17:07","slug":"pair-sought-after-assault-outside-downtown-calgary-bar","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/518748\/","title":{"rendered":"Pair sought after assault outside downtown Calgary bar"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Calgary police are asking for help from the public to identity two men believed to be responsible for an assault outside a bar downtown last month.<\/p>\n<p>Investigators say it happened shortly before 2 a.m. outside The Unicorn pub on Stephen Avenue.<\/p>\n<p>A man was standing outside the bar when he was approached by someone he didn\u2019t know. That man had been kicked out of the bar earlier for causing a disturbance, police add.<\/p>\n<p>The suspect became increasingly aggressive with the man. Several bystanders intervened, according to investigators.<\/p>\n<p>At this time, a second suspect got involved.<\/p>\n<p>Police say the pair assaulted the initial victim, as well as one of the bystanders who tried to intervene, before running away.<\/p>\n<p>They were last seen walking eastbound on 8 Avenue SW.<\/p>\n<p>The first suspect is between 25 and 30 years old, about six feet tall with a slim build, dark hair, and a beard. At the time of the incident, he was wearing black pants, white shoes, and no shirt.<\/p>\n<p>The second suspect is also between 25 and 30 years old, six feet tall, with a slim build. At the time of the incident, he was wearing a black \u2018Roots\u2019 hoodie, a baseball cap, black pants, and black shoes.<\/p>\n<p>Anyone with information about this incident is asked to contact police by calling 403-266-1234 or submitting an anonymous tip through CrimeStoppers.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Calgary police are asking for help from the public to identity two men believed to be responsible for&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":518749,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[194293],"tags":[49,2798,48],"class_list":{"0":"post-518748","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-calgary","8":"tag-ca","9":"tag-calgary","10":"tag-canada"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/518748","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=518748"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/518748\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/518749"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=518748"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=518748"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=518748"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}