Looks like black-on-white slashing attacks are not just happening in New York City. FYI: Edmonton, Alberta has a substantial population of Somali immigrants/refugees. Since the temperature often gets down to 30 below zero Fahrenheit in Edmonton during the winter those Somalis are probably not all that happy they were sent there. To top it off the World Health Organization (WHO) of the United Nations (UN) has estimated that at least one third of the Somali population is mentally ill. Other than that “nothing to see here folks…just move along now”.
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As the couple strolled up Edmonton’s 124 Street drag drinking coffee in Saturday’s bright evening sunshine, a passerby ran up and stabbed the man in the back.
“The man of the couple was distressed, or tripping out, or something, because he was trying to reach for his back and feel his back. Something was wrong,” said Michael Zabiran, who saw it all happen as he drove north along 124 Street, just south of 107 Avenue, at about 5 p.m.
What first caught Zabiran’s eye was a man in dark clothing sprinting up the west sidewalk. “He was running, you know, like he was in a race.”
He was running, you know, like he was in a race
The man passed the couple and kept going. That’s when the other man started clutching his back.
Zabiran wasn’t sure what had happened. He rolled down his window to ask if the man was OK, and was told to call 911.
“He had been stabbed in the back just by the man that had run by,” Zabiran said. “It’s not like it was a fight at all. It was like he brushed up against him and kept going. Quick enough that I didn’t know until I saw the stab wounds in his back.”
“(The suspect) disappeared. He didn’t stop, he didn’t say anything, nothing.”
Zabiran helped the man, who said he was visiting from Calgary, until an ambulance arrived.
The man was taken to hospital with non-life threatening injuries, said west division Sgt. Scott Abbott at the scene. He said there is “no connection” between the suspect and victim. In a news release Sunday, police said they are still investigating “to determine if this was a random incident.”
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“There’s no cause for the public to be concerned about a repeat attack,” said Insp. Regan James on Sunday.
Police are still looking for the suspect, who they described Saturday as a man with an average build and dark skin. Witnesses said he was wearing dark clothing at the time.
A bloodied blue shirt and a couple of coffee cups lay scattered outside the two-storey Waldon apartment building at 10622 124 St. Saturday evening.
Police cordoned off an area where droplets of blood stained the sidewalk.
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