Grouse Grind now open following nearby stabbing
Posted November 6, 2013 12:10 pm.
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NORTH VANCOUVER (NEWS1130) – The Grouse Grind is now officially open, but police continue to investigate a stabbing that happened on the nearby BCMC hiking trail yesterday.
Police are looking for a suspect after a 53-year-old man was stabbed on the BC Mountaineering Club trail.
RCMP Cpl. Richard De Jong says the victim was hiking up the BCMC, east of the Grouse Grind, when he met a man he did not know at the halfway mark.
De Jong says there was an unprovoked altercation between the two, and the victim was stabbed in the abdomen.
He says the suspect fled while the victim struggled down the mountain where he was met by hikers who called emergency services.
Today, a number of hikers expressed concern over the incident and say they will continue to practice their safe hiking practices. “We’ve got the two of us together. It’s just a crazy person, it’s not a hiker-hiker,” say two women.
De Jong says the victim was taken to Lions Gate Hospital where he is being treated for what appears to be non-life-threatening injuries.
Emergency-response members, police dogs and officers from the North Vancouver detachment had secured the area, and De Jong says they were looking for other potential victims.
