Witnesses sought in South Surrey bear-spray assault<\/p>\n
Published 1:00 pm Thursday, July 9, 2026<\/p>\n
Surrey Police Service is appealing for help identifying culprits in an assault involving youth and bear spray in South Surrey.<\/p>\n
According to a news release issued Thursday (July 9), the incident occurred at around 4 p.m. on May 31, outside The Shops at Morgan Crossing location of Menchies Frozen Yogurt (15775 Croydon Dr.).<\/p>\n
Police say a male youth was sitting on a bench when he was approached by two unknown male youth. One sprayed the unsuspecting teen with bear spray, while the second recorded the incident on a cellphone.<\/p>\n
The suspect who deployed the spray is described as a five-foot-four white male in his teens with shaggy brown hair, wearing a light hoodie, red shirt, black shorts, black shoes and a cross-body bag. The youth may have been pushed around in a blue shopping cart, the news release adds.<\/p>\n
The suspect who filmed the incident is described as a five-foot-six Middle Eastern male in his teens with short black curly hair. His right hand was wrapped in medical tape, and he was wearing a black T-shirt with white designs, black pants with large white designs, white shoes, and a cross-body bag.<\/p>\n
SPS has spoken with the victim, and shared his description in the hopes of triggering the memory of any witnesses: he is described as a five-foot-six Middle Eastern teen with black curly hair, who was wearing a black hoodie, light blue jeans and black clog-style shoes at the time of the assault.<\/p>\n
Anyone with information about incident or who knows the identity of the suspects is asked to contact the SPS non-emergency line at 604-599-0502 and quote file number 2026-54451 (SP) or, to remain anonymous, call Crime Stoppers at 1-800-222-8477.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Witnesses sought in South Surrey bear-spray assault Published 1:00 pm Thursday, July 9, 2026 Surrey Police Service is…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":796986,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[194299],"tags":[49,48,87674],"class_list":["post-796985","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\/796985","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=796985"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/796985\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/796986"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=796985"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=796985"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=796985"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}