{"id":921005,"date":"2026-10-05T02:50:11","date_gmt":"2026-10-05T02:50:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/921005\/"},"modified":"2026-10-05T02:50:11","modified_gmt":"2026-10-05T02:50:11","slug":"police-looking-for-man-involved-in-kitchener-assault","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/921005\/","title":{"rendered":"Police looking for man involved in Kitchener assault"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Waterloo Regional Police Service is investigating an incident where a man was reportedly assaulted in Kitchener.<\/p>\n<p>Police say they received a report of the assault on Oct. 3, at 9:45 a.m., in a Kitchener business. Adding that the incident happened in the Fairway Road South and Wilson Avenue area. <\/p>\n<p>Officials say that a store employee told police that an unknown man made racist comments directed at him, before assaulting the staff member.<\/p>\n<p>Police are asking the public for their help in identifying the man who they believe is connected to the assault.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"484\" height=\"844\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/20261003033239Screenshot-2026-10-03-152923-2.png\" class=\"attachment-full size-full\" alt=\"\"  \/><\/p>\n<p>Photo of man police are hoping to identify and speak with, courtesy of the Waterloo Regional Police Service.<\/p>\n<p>The Waterloo regional police\u2019s investigation is still ongoing.<\/p>\n<p>\t\tKeep it Factual<\/p>\n<p>Add CityNews Kitchener as a trusted source on Google to see more local stories from us.<\/p>\n<p>\t\t<a href=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/preferences\/source?q=kitchener.citynews.ca\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><br \/>\n\t\t<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"add-trusted-source-badge\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/1791168611_424_google-trusted-badge.png\" alt=\"Add as a preferred source on Google\" width=\"198\" height=\"63\"\/><br \/>\n\t\t<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Waterloo Regional Police Service is investigating an incident where a man was reportedly assaulted in Kitchener. Police&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":921006,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[49,48,44],"class_list":["post-921005","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\/921005","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=921005"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/921005\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/921006"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=921005"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=921005"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=921005"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}