{"id":647024,"date":"2026-05-04T11:08:34","date_gmt":"2026-05-04T11:08:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/647024\/"},"modified":"2026-05-04T11:08:34","modified_gmt":"2026-05-04T11:08:34","slug":"surrey-police-seek-witnesses-in-assault-on-8-year-old-at-vaisakhi-amusement-rides","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/647024\/","title":{"rendered":"Surrey Police seek witnesses in assault on 8-year-old at Vaisakhi amusement rides"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>              Surrey Police seek witnesses in assault on 8-year-old at Vaisakhi amusement rides<\/p>\n<p class=\"pubStamp\">Published 10:57 am Friday, May 1, 2026<\/p>\n<p>Police are looking for witnesses after an eight-year-old boy was allegedly assaulted by two men inside a haunted house during the Khalsa Day festivities in Surrey.<\/p>\n<p>Surrey Police responded to an assault call in the parking lot of the gurdwara in the 12800-block of 85 Avenue around 5 p.m. on April 19. The alleged assault occurred inside a \u201chaunted house amusement called Kreepy Kastle,\u201d police said in a news release Friday (May 1). The<a href=\"https:\/\/surreynowleader.com\/2026\/04\/06\/10-days-of-rides-at-surrey-vaisakhi-parade-grounds-starting-friday\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\"> house was one of several rides and attractions <\/a>set up outside of Gurdwara Dashmesh Darbar Sahib for 10 days for Vaisakhi.<\/p>\n<p>The boy was able to escape and fled to his family and told them of the assault. \u201cThe child suffered injuries to his neck, which required treatment at a hospital,\u201d police said.<\/p>\n<p>SPS\u2019s Major Crime Unit and Special Victims Team is investigating the assault. Police have identified two South Asian adult males as the suspects. They were wearing dark clothing, one was wearing a turban, and the other had a \u201cvery distinctive, floral-patterned brown shirt.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Investigators are asking for any witnesses or any other potential victims to contact the police. They are also asking for anyone who has photos or videos of the inside or outside of the area between 4 and 5 p.m. on April 19 to contact the police.<\/p>\n<p>Anyone with information should contact SPS\u2019s non-emergency line at 604-599-0502 and quote file number 26-37221 (SP) or contact Crime Stoppers at 1-800-222-8477.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Surrey Police seek witnesses in assault on 8-year-old at Vaisakhi amusement rides Published 10:57 am Friday, May 1,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":647025,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[194299],"tags":[49,48,87674],"class_list":["post-647024","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-surrey","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-surrey"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/647024","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=647024"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/647024\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/647025"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=647024"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=647024"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=647024"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}