Man in critical condition after altercation with campus security at Langley’s Trinity Western
Posted October 1, 2020 1:05 pm.
Last Updated October 1, 2020 5:44 pm.
LANGLEY (NEWS 1130) — A man is in critical condition after a struggle with campus security at Langley’s Trinity Western University Wednesday.
According to a release from RCMP, officers were called to the campus around 3 p.m. to “a report of an agitated man on campus who was having an altercation with campus security.”
Mounties looking for witnesses to a struggle that left a 31-year-old man from #Chilliwack in critical condition.
It involved security staff confronting him at the Langley campus of Trinity Western University Wednesday afternoon.
News release describes him as “agitated.” @NEWS1130 https://t.co/4pFrmTT29N— Marcella Bernardo (@Bernardo1130) October 1, 2020
When police arrived, the 31-year-old man from Chilliwack was unresponsive and immediately taken to Royal Columbia Hospital, police say. The man is still in hospital.
Langley RCMP’s Sgt. Rebecca Parslow tells NEWS 1130 the man wasn’t a student at the school, but for privacy reasons, his name won’t be released.
“He was just acting irregularly and in an agitated state yesterday afternoon in and around Trinity Western, which alerted campus security prior to the altercation that ensued,” she says.
Parslow says the man is “relatively unknown to police.”
The campus was locked down, but officers believe this to be an isolated incident. They add there isn’t a safety concern and no one else was hurt.
.@TrinityWestern has issued a statement containing no new information about a violent altercation involving campus security in #Langley Wednesday that left a 31-year-old man in critical condition, but FYI. @NEWS1130 pic.twitter.com/KAkqzb3gm9
— Marcella Bernardo (@Bernardo1130) October 2, 2020
Now RCMP is asking for additional video of the incident in hopes of seeing what happened from other angles. Mounties note some video has been posted to social media already.
Anyone with video or who witnessed the incident and hasn’t spoken to police yet, is urged to contact Mounties at 604-532-3200.
NEWS 1130 has reached out to Trinity Western.
