‘Shaken to my core’: Mother considers leaving Vancouver after verbal attack by stranger
Global News
A Vancouver woman says she was verbally attacked and followed by a stranger while walking her baby along the seawall in Yaleton over the weekend.
A Sunday stroll on the seawall in Yaletown took a terrifying turn for a Vancouver mother and her baby after a random verbal attack by a man left her shaken to the point she is planning to leave the city.
Global News has agreed to withhold her identity over safety concerns and refer to her as Anna.
Anna says she was pushing her one-year-old’s stroller near the seawall by Cambie Bridge and the marina around 8:45 a.m. on July 28, when a man came up behind them.
“He was screaming and yelling threats and obscenities, but he was yelling them to himself, as if he was having a fight with someone inside his own head,” Anna said.
She says she decided to cross the street, but the man followed, and his obscenities became more pointed towards her.
“Then he started to yell, you f –ing b—. You think I can’t catch you? I can f—ing catch you, you f –ing b—,” she said.
Anna says she yelled for help and ran down a ramp onto the seawall where bystanders intervened and surrounded her and her child.
“Another person with a stroller was also there, and he walked to the corner to let the police know what was happening,” she said, adding the suspect went over to this second person, yelled at him and kicked him.