{"id":860671,"date":"2026-08-16T23:36:12","date_gmt":"2026-08-16T23:36:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/860671\/"},"modified":"2026-08-16T23:36:12","modified_gmt":"2026-08-16T23:36:12","slug":"calgary-police-seeking-suspect-in-late-night-assault-near-downtown","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/860671\/","title":{"rendered":"Calgary police seeking suspect in late-night assault near downtown"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Calgary police are asking for the public&#8217;s help in locating a suspect involved in an assault just south of downtown Friday night.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Police responded to an incident at Spanky&#8217;s Saloon in the Beltline at about 11:40 p.m. Friday, where they said they found three injured men, one of whom appeared to have been stabbed. The men were all taken to hospital with non-life-threatening injuries.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Police believe all three were assaulted by the same person, and have identified Devontae Traverse, 22, as a suspect. He is wanted on a warrant for three counts of aggravated assault and two counts of breaches of a court order, police said. They described him as &#8220;about 5&#8217;10&#8221; with a slim build, black hair and brown eyes.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Investigators said the suspect and victims did not previously know one another.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Police are asking anyone with information to contact them by calling 403-266-1234, or by submitting tips anonymously to Crime Stoppers by calling 1-800-222-8477, visiting <a data-ylk=\"slk:their website;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas;\" data-yga=\"{&quot;yLinkElement&quot;:&quot;link&quot;,&quot;yLinkElementType&quot;:&quot;article_link&quot;}\" href=\"https:\/\/calgarycrimestoppers.org\/\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">their website<\/a> or using the P3 Tips app.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Catch up with the day&#8217;s headlines, curated by our editors and delivered to your email inbox at lunchtime on every business day. Sign up now for the Calgary Herald Noon News Roundup.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Calgary police are asking for the public&#8217;s help in locating a suspect involved in an assault just south&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":860672,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[194293],"tags":[186629,49,2798,12459,48,299496],"class_list":["post-860671","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-calgary","tag-aggravated-assault","tag-ca","tag-calgary","tag-calgary-police-service","tag-canada","tag-devontae-traverse"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/860671","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=860671"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/860671\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/860672"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=860671"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=860671"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=860671"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}