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19-year-old man is in police custody facing three counts of assault
for allegedly punching three women on downtown streets Friday morning.
City
police spokeswoman Emma Poole said the worst injury was an apparent
broken nose sustained by one of the victims, who was knocked to the
ground and struck in the face.
"They were all random assaults. None of the victims were known to the suspect," said Poole.
She
said the first assault occurred at 7th Avenue and 3rd Street S.W. and
the others occurred within a couple of blocks west of there. All
appeared to be unprovoked.
Beamer Comfort, an articling student
with Bennett Jones law firm in Bankers Hall, said he was walking
towards the Calgary Courts Centre to file documents when he witnessed
what would have been the last two assaults.
"Out of the corner
of my eye, I caught a guy punching a girl in the face," Comfort said.
"The C-Train passed and I went to see if she was OK.
"By that
time, (the assailant) had crossed the street and punched another lady
in the face, so I went to approach him and chased him across the train
platform and across the tracks."
Comfort said he and another man
caught the suspect. He held the culprit while the other man ran into
the courthouse to get the sheriffs, who came out and detained the
suspect until police arrived.
During that time, said Comfort, the man repeatedly threatened him: "He kept asking me if I wanted to die for this."
Comfort said the suspect, who is of African descent, told the sheriffs he was a white supremacist.
Kidus Lulu Tekele, 19, has been charged with three counts of common assault.
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