Senior in critical condition following alleged assault near Surrey Central Station<\/p>\n
Published 2:33 pm Wednesday, July 29, 2026<\/p>\n
A 78-year-old woman is in critical condition after an alleged assault near Surrey Central Station on Tuesday (July 28). <\/p>\n
The woman was walking just outside the station around 3 p.m. when a man \u201cwalked up behind her and allegedly aggressively shoulder-checked her as he passed,\u201d Metro Vancouver Transit Police said Wednesday (July 29). <\/p>\n
The woman fell and hit her head on a concrete wall and the pavement. Police say she sustained a \u201cserious head injury\u201d and was transported to hospital by BC Emergency Health Services, where you remains in stable but critical condition. <\/p>\n
The suspect, Evan Michael Scott Abbott, did not remain on the scene but was arrested later that evening and has been charged with aggravated assault. He remains in custody until his next court appearance at Surrey Provincial Court on August 19. <\/p>\n
\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 Metro Vancouver Transit Police media relations officer Const. Sunny Kainth said. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Senior in critical condition following alleged assault near Surrey Central Station Published 2:33 pm Wednesday, July 29, 2026…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":842300,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[194299],"tags":[49,48,87674],"class_list":["post-842299","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\/842299","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=842299"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/842299\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/842300"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=842299"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=842299"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=842299"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}