officers responded shortly after 10 p.m. Friday<\/a> to reports of a fight involving multiple people near Beacon Hill Park.<\/p>\nThree people were injured, with two taken to hospital. Police say both have since been released with non-life-threatening injuries. Two suspects, including one youth, were arrested at the scene and remain in custody as VicPD\u2019s major crime unit investigates the attack.<\/p>\n
The witness said she and her friends had been spending the night listening to music when they noticed another group lingering nearby.<\/p>\n
She said several members of her group tried to be friendly and invite the others over, but the interaction quickly became unsettling.<\/p>\n
According to the witness, she and three friends had stepped way from the larger group when one of the men approached them.<\/p>\n
\u201cI noticed the one of the males, he flipped the knife to his side when he was asking if we want to come with [them],\u201d she recalled. \u201cI grabbed my friends, and I\u2019m like, let\u2019s go back to the group, because something weird is happening.\u201d<\/p>\n
After returning to their friends and confronting the group about the knife, she said the situation rapidly escalated.<\/p>\n
\u201cFrom there, they started getting very violent towards us. They had started trying to throw punches at us. I got spat on by one of them,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n
The witness said the same man who had earlier displayed the knife later pulled out what appeared to be a machete during the fight.<\/p>\n
\u201cHe reaches into his back, and he grabs a machete out, he pulls it out, and all of a sudden we\u2019re like, oh God, this is getting serious,\u201d she said. \u201cHe just started swinging.\u201d<\/p>\n
She estimated there were between 10 to 15 people with the suspect, but said nearly everyone fled once the machete appeared.<\/p>\n
\u201cOnly one guy stayed by his side. The rest were like, \u2018That\u2019s not cool, we\u2019re getting out of here, we don\u2019t want anything to do with that,’\u201d she said.<\/p>\n
Two of her friends suffered serious slash wounds, she said, with one expected to undergo surgery.<\/p>\n
\u201cThey\u2019re stable,\u201d she said. \u201cOne of them is going to have to be going into surgery\u2026they\u2019re doing a lot better now.\u201d<\/p>\n
The witness said members of her group chased the suspect toward Mile Zero, where one of her friends tackled him before police arrived.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe were like, \u2018There\u2019s no way you\u2019re getting away, like we\u2019re gonna follow you wherever you go, because of what you just did, like there\u2019s no way you\u2019re doing this to anyone else,’\u201d she said. \u201cWe chased them back to the Mile Zero Terry Fox run, one of my friends had tackled the machete man to the ground, and that\u2019s when the cops showed up.\u201d<\/p>\n
The witness also released a video of what appears to be the aftermath of the attack, showing two males running from other people while shouting is exchanged.<\/p>\n
She said she decided to speak publicly because some of those injured are still recovering and because misinformation about the attack has spread online.<\/p>\n
\u201cI want people to be aware of what happened. I\u2019ve seen many stories on social media platforms saying people had died, all these things happened that weren\u2019t true,\u201d she said. \u201cI would like everyone to know that they are safe and they\u2019re in a safe place now. Nobody had passed away, but this is what happened, and it was very much so out of nowhere.\u201d<\/p>\n
Victoria police have released few details beyond confirming the arrests and injuries.<\/p>\n
Investigators are asking anyone with information who has not yet spoken with police to contact the E-Comm non-emergency line at 250-995-7654 extension 1, referencing file number 26-27379.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A young woman who witnessed Friday night\u2019s violent attack along Victoria\u2019s Dallas Road says the violence erupted \u201cout…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":782834,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[49,48,44],"class_list":["post-782833","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-canada","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/782833","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=782833"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/782833\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/782834"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=782833"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=782833"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=782833"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}