{"id":703019,"date":"2026-05-30T04:18:12","date_gmt":"2026-05-30T04:18:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/703019\/"},"modified":"2026-05-30T04:18:12","modified_gmt":"2026-05-30T04:18:12","slug":"molotov-cocktail-thrown-into-north-vancouver-home-and-the-owners-dont-know-why-bc","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/703019\/","title":{"rendered":"Molotov cocktail thrown into North Vancouver home and the owners don\u2019t know why &#8211; BC"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t\tDescrease article font size<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\tIncrease article font size<\/p>\n<p>North Vancouver RCMP is investigating an incident that may be a case of mistaken identity.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/70c8fc80.png\" alt=\"\" style=\"position:absolute;width:1px;height:1px\" referrerpolicy=\"no-referrer-when-downgrade\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Police said a Molotov cocktail was thrown through the window of a four-plex on Tuesday evening while a young family was inside the home.<\/p>\n<p>The victims, who Global News is not identifying out of safety concerns, said the father was sitting on a couch next to the window moments before someone tossed a lit bottle through the window.<\/p>\n<p>Fortunately, he had moved to another room just in time.<\/p>\n<p>The family said they heard a loud crash; the mother saw the window on fire and broken glass on the ledge.<\/p>\n<p>A neighbour, who is also not being identified, rushed to help the family.<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" width=\"170\" height=\"225\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/national.jpg\" alt=\"Get breaking Canada news delivered to your inbox as it happens so you won't miss a trending story.\"\/><\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\tGet breaking National news<\/p>\n<p>Get breaking Canada news delivered to your inbox as it happens so you won&#8217;t miss a trending story.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI heard my neighbours yelling and it was clear that something had happened in their house\u2026 I ran downstairs to help as fast as possible,\u201d the neighbour said.<\/p>\n<p>Story continues below advertisement<\/p>\n<p>\u201cGot the hose from the side of the house, doused the fire and there was a bottle stuck in the window.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThere could have been a major fire; somebody could have been injured, killed, who knows.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" class=\"c-video__image\" alt=\"Click to play video: 'Suspects sought in North Vancouver Halloween arson'\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/web_still_6P_NORTH_VANCOUVER_FIRE_OM01LBVT.jpg\" loading=\"lazy\"   data-\/><\/p>\n<p>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t1:28<br \/>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tSuspects sought in North Vancouver Halloween arson\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>\n\t\t\tMore on Crime<br \/>\n\t\t\tMore videos\n\t\t<\/p>\n<p>Cpl. Mansoor Sahak with North Vancouver RCMP said that officers are conducting video canvassing and speaking to neighbours and witnesses.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cObviously, this is a scary situation for the family, the residents there,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe\u2019re treating this extremely seriously; our victim services unit is engaged in providing assistance to the family.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The family said they don\u2019t understand why anyone would want to harm them and they believe that this may have been a case of mistaken identity.<\/p>\n<p>Story continues below advertisement<\/p>\n<p>Police said it is too early in the investigation to say if the incident was targeted or random.<\/p>\n<p>\n\t\t&amp;copy 2026 Global News, a division of Corus Entertainment Inc.\t<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Descrease article font size Increase article font size North Vancouver RCMP is investigating an incident that may be&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":703020,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[194298],"tags":[49,48,2169,255792,162712,55],"class_list":["post-703019","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-vancouver","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-crime","tag-north-vancouver-crime","tag-north-vancouver-rcmp","tag-vancouver"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/703019","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=703019"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/703019\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/703020"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=703019"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=703019"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=703019"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}