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Woman Assaulted Outside Vancouver Downtown Nightclub Dies

Darpan News Desk The Canadian Press, 12 Aug, 2016 10:29 AM

A 28-year-old woman has died after an attack early Thursday morning, outside a bar in Vancouver's downtown entertainment district.

Const. Brian Montague says, in a release, that the unnamed victim was allegedly assaulted by two other women shortly after the three had a brief altercation inside the Caprice Nightclub.

Staff at the club intervened to stop the attack on the street, which occurred at about 2 a.m., and the victim was rushed to hospital but died Thursday night.

Officers arrested two suspects about 30 minutes after the assault.

Montague says two women have been interviewed and released from custody pending further investigation and the results of an autopsy.

A young woman allegedly assaulted outside the Caprice nightclub yesterday https://t.co/SW3ienY3qy has now died.
— Vancouver Police (@VancouverPD) August 12, 2016

This is Vancouver’s fifth homicide of 2016.

Anyone with information, or who observed the assault and has not yet spoken with police, is asked to contact the VPD Homicide Unit at 604-717-2500 or Crime Stoppers at 1-800-222-8477.

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