{"id":835962,"date":"2026-07-30T13:36:22","date_gmt":"2026-07-30T13:36:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/835962\/"},"modified":"2026-07-30T13:36:22","modified_gmt":"2026-07-30T13:36:22","slug":"transit-police-arrest-man-after-78-year-old-woman-assaulted-in-surrey","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/835962\/","title":{"rendered":"Transit Police arrest man after 78-year-old woman assaulted in Surrey"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>            <a href=\"https:\/\/voiceonline.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/LOGO-TRANSIT-POLICE.jpg\" data-caption=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"696\" height=\"522\" class=\"entry-thumb td-modal-image\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/LOGO-TRANSIT-POLICE-696x522.jpg\"   alt=\"\" title=\"LOGO TRANSIT POLICE\"\/><\/a>            <\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">A suspect was arrested by Metro Vancouver Transit Police after an alleged assault in Surrey left a woman in critical condition.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Just after 3 p.m. on Tuesday, July 28, a 78-year-old woman was walking just outside Surrey Central Station when a man walked up behind her and allegedly aggressively shoulder checked her as he passed. The woman was violently knocked to the ground during the alleged assault, hitting her head on a concrete wall and the pavement. The suspect then left the scene.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The victim sustained serious head injuries and was transported to hospital by BC Ambulance Service where she remains in stable, but critical, condition.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">A man matching the description of the suspect was arrested later that evening. Evan Michael Scott Abbott has been charged with aggravated assault. He remains in custody awaiting a bail hearing.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cTransit Police would like to thank the two witnesses who each saw the incident unfold, called 9-1-1 and then remained on the scene to assist the victim and provide statements to police officers. We appreciate the time they took to help a stranger and assist with the investigation,\u201d said Constable Sunny Kainth.<\/p>\n<p>\n\tRelated<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A suspect was arrested by Metro Vancouver Transit Police after an alleged assault in Surrey left a woman&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":835963,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[194299],"tags":[291633,879,49,48,2169,87674,208988,208989],"class_list":["post-835962","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-surrey","tag-78-year-old-woamn-assaulted","tag-breaking-news","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-crime","tag-surrey","tag-surrey-central-station","tag-transit-police"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/835962","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=835962"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/835962\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/835963"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=835962"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=835962"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=835962"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}