Violent altercation caught on camera in Surrey, B.C., restaurant

Police successful Surrey are investigating a convulsive incidental astatine a edifice successful the Sullivan Heights neighbourhood that was caught connected camera.

The incidental happened Wednesday day astatine the Donair Affair connected 144 Street and 64 Avenue, crossed the thoroughfare from Sullivan Heights Secondary School.

Cell telephone video posted to societal media shows a antheral sitting astatine a array successful the restaurant, earlier being approached and deed successful the caput with a chair, past punched aggregate times.

“It’s a disturbing video, you tin intelligibly spot idiosyncratic who would beryllium suffering from evident wounded from attack,” Surrey Police Service spokesperson Ian MacDonald told Global News.

“To this point, we person been told that determination were evidently immoderate things that happened anterior to the video signaling itself, truthful we volition person to look comprehensively astatine each of that.”

Police judge determination was immoderate benignant of speech betwixt the antheral and a younker preceding the attack.

Police confirmed the victim, who is an adult, suffered a achromatic oculus and a bruised face.

MacDonald said investigators person since spoken to a fig of youths who were successful the restaurant, including those who were “directly involved” successful the incident, on with their parents.

Police would not corroborate whether the younker were students astatine Sullivan Heights, but MacDonald said investigators were moving with the schoolhouse district.

In a statement, the territory said it was alert of the incident, but that it does not stock accusation astir immoderate of its students.

“The information of our students and schoolhouse assemblage is our apical priority. Surrey Schools does not condone oregon tolerate immoderate acts of unit against others,” the territory said.

“Immediate adjacent steps for the territory see supporting the Surrey Police Service successful their probe and moving with immoderate impacted students and their families.”

Students Global News spoke with, meanwhile, said the Donair edifice is  a fashionable luncheon spot for the schoolhouse assemblage and described the unit arsenic retired of character.

“It’s honestly conscionable shocking and unacceptable,” Grade 11 pupil Alphonso Barrite said.

“I don’t deliberation that should beryllium tolerated, that’s not right,” added Grade 11 pupil Krishan Dhanda.