Metro Vancouver Transit Police say the man accused of attacking a Good Samaritan who intervened in a racist incident aboard a transit bus has since died of a drug overdose.
Investigators said the suspect was a 48-year-old Vancouver man of no fixed address who was “well known to police.” The man died about a week after the incident, said police.
Police say the attack happened on the afternoon of April 15, aboard a TransLink bus at Main and East Hastings Streets. [ Sign up for our Health IQ newsletter for the latest coronavirus updates ] According to police, the man told a pair of Asian women who had boarded the bus wearing masks to go back to their country.