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17-year-old male arrested after
bioody encounter on Wednesday

Anna Marie D'Angelo
News Reporter dangelo@nsnews.com

A teenager was stabbed twice in the back with
a long butcher knife on Wednesday outside the

Park and Tilford movie theatre complex.

The 17-year-old North Vancouver resident sustained a punctured
lung, according to the North Vancouver RCMP.
To press time Thursday, the teenager had undergone surgery at
Lions Gate Hospital. He was upgraded trom critical to serious, but sta-
ble condition in the intensive care unit.
Police declined to release the teenager's name.
North Vancouver RCMP Const. Heidi Hoffman said the Caucasian
teenager and his girlfriend had just Jeft the movie theatre when he was
attacked.
Police arrested a 17-year-old North Vancouver male.
Police described the suspect as being of Iranian descent.
Hoffman said the victim and suspect had a history of conflicts with
cach other.
The stabbing occurred shortly before midnight as movie patrons of
the late showing of the teenage sex comedy American Pie were leaving
the Cineplex Odeon Cinemas on Brooksbank Avenue.
The movie drew close toa full theatre, according to one witness.
With movie patrons still in the lobby, a “girl” ran in saying, “Does
anyone have a first aid kit? Somebody has been stabbed.”
Outside, the injured teen was face down on the ground.
His white jeans were blood-stained and blood was pooling around
his foot, according to the witness.
People were crowded around him, some trying, to apply pressure to
his wounds. Other shocked movie patrons made comments such as “Oh
my gosh.”
A large butcher knife was near the injured teen’s feet.
About “30 seconds Jater lots” of police cars zoomed into the shop-
ping centre. An ambulance arrived a short time later. :
When police asked if anyone had witnessed the stabbing, about four . ‘ - : Jie a, te
people immediately came forward. NEWS photo Mike Wakefield

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suspect.
One young movie patron who was born in Canada and whose fami- .
ly came from Kenya was stopped by police and forced to show identifi- IRREPRESSIBLE West Vancouver musician, broadcaster and impresario Nardwuar the Human
Serviette was hospitalized fast weekend after a brain hemorrhage. He’s been busy answering

See Stabbing page 3 phone calls from well-wishers and plotting his next career move. See story on page 24.

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