Victim of fatal stabbing might have chased suspect, police say
WHITE ROCK — Police say a man killed in a stabbing attack in White Rock this week may have tried to chase down the person who stabbed him.
Homicide investigators say witnesses told them that Kulwinder Singh Sohi, 26, was seen in a physical altercation with the suspect before giving chase on the White Rock Promenade on Tuesday evening.
“The original attack occurred about 75 metres west down the pathway,” Integrated Homicide Investigation Team spokesman Sgt. Timothy Pierotti said at a news conference on White Rock’s waterfront.
“What started with an attack led to a foot pursuit involving the suspect and the victim. It ended up coming towards [the conference site], and that’s where the victim sadly collapsed and succumbed to his injuries.”
Police said Sohi was attended to by emergency responders after the attack but died at the scene.
The stabbing death has shocked the White Rock community since another stabbing attack happened nearby just days earlier, on Sunday evening, when a man was injured but survived.
The description of the suspect in the fatal stabbing on Tuesday, a Black man wearing a hat and a grey hoodie, is similar to the one from Sunday’s attack, but police have not confirmed if the incidents are linked.
Pierotti said investigators are not “jumping to conclusions” that the attacks were perpetrated by the same suspect, but more video and witness accounts will help police positively identify the perpetrator in both cases.
“Just to be clear, we’re talking about two different situations that occurred here,” Pierotti said. “And to draw links between them, there’s obviously similarities between them, but we can’t confirm at this time that it is the same person responsible for both situations.”