A Vancouver man lately sentenced for attacking a stranger final fall, and assaulting a supportive housing employee earlier this yr, has now been charged with assaulting a peace officer.
Described by police as a “high-risk violent offender,” Shakwan David Kelly, 30, was arrested by Metro Vancouver Transit Police (MVTP) on Aug. 27, following an “interplay” outdoors of Waterfront Station in Vancouver.
In line with police, an officer with MVTP approached Kelly to debate his open drug use, when the person allegedly charged on the officer, placing him within the face and physique.
The officer was handled in hospital for minor bodily accidents.
Police stated Kelly was tasered in the course of the incident, however the weapon had no impact and the person ran away.
Kelly was arrested a brief distance away, with assist from transit safety officers and Vancouver police.
A Vancouver man with a historical past of violence, together with the random assault of 4 individuals in 2022, has now been charged with assaulting a transit police officer.
Courtesy: Metro Vancouver Transit Police
On July 16, Kelly was sentenced to 11-and-a-half months in jail and two years’ probation after he pleaded responsible in Could to 2 separate assaults, uttering threats and breaching his launch order.
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With credit score for time already spent in custody, he had 39 days left to serve.
Kelly stays the topic of a three-year probation order following the time served sentence he acquired in March 2023 for pleading responsible to 4 random assaults within the span of 1 month in 2022.
Throughout his sentencing on July 16, the courtroom heard Kelly had lately refused his injection for schizophrenia and was topic to a Psychological Well being Act (MHA) warrant.
Each Crown and defence counsel stated Kelly, who was licensed below the MHA, can be taken to hospital upon his launch from custody.
Court docket additionally heard Kelly was on a wait checklist to get into the Pink Fish Therapeutic Centre, a provincial facility in Coquitlam for purchasers with advanced and concurrent psychological well being and substance use issues.
Kelly’s lawyer famous the wait to entry the 105-bed facility may be anyplace from two months to a yr, however advised the courtroom that his mom stays a robust supply of assist, and was doing every thing in her energy to get her son the assistance he wants.
Kelly stays in custody forward of a bail listening to Sept. 4 on the brand new cost.
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