A 37-year-old man has been charged after allegedly punching a police officer in the face and then slashing her jacket with a knife.
Just after midnight, Metro Vancouver Transit Police officers responded to multiple reports of a man assaulting other passengers without provocation on board a Millennium Line train in Burnaby, according to a transit police statement.
The officers intercepted the train at Lougheed Station and located the suspect on board a train, the statement said.
As officers attempted to speak with the suspect, however, he allegedly struck one of them in the face and fled on foot toward the intersection of Lougheed Highway and Austin Avenue, according to police.
After police caught up with the man, transit police say he produced a knife and slashed the jacket of the same officer he had allegedly punched earlier.
“A conducted energy weapon (CEW) was deployed, which was ineffective, and one shot was fired by police, which did not strike the suspect,” reads the transit police statement.
Neither the officer nor the suspect sustained serious physical injuries, according to police.
Kyle Evan Grant, 37, has now been charged with assaulting a police officer with a weapon, uttering threats, obstruction and possession of a weapon for a dangerous purpose in relation to the incidents.
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