2 weeks Ago By Spiro Papuckoski
A Toronto woman has gone into detail about the horrific beating she says she took from a random stranger while on vacation in Vancouver this month. The young woman named Stephanie said she was attacked along the Coal Harbour seawall. According to Vancouver Police, the assault occurred in the early morning hours of April 15.
She was in the city a little over 24 hours when she says the attack occurred. The woman, who grew up in Hamilton, said she suffered a broken nose and shared images of two black eyes and other injuries to her knee, elbow and hand. She also posted to her TikTok account photos of a bloodied pair of AirPods, her bloodstained purse and a shattered phone.
“While visiting Vancouver and walking along the sea wall after dinner, a man I had never seen before decided to try and end my life,” the woman wrote in the caption to her first post about the attack last week. “I hope he rots.” She also noted the suspect was released on bail in Surrey on April 14 for a separate incident.
“It just felt like he was a predator and I was prey,” the woman said in a video posted Tuesday that has been viewed nearly six million times. “This wasn’t because he asked me out and I turned him down. This wasn’t because we were chatting .
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He locked in on me and was like, ‘I’m going to kill this girl.'” The woman said the man yelled some words from a grassy hill and charged at her. She said she began to run, but he caught up to her very quickly and slammed her into the ground.
She says she remembered being stunned by the reality that she was under attack and began fighting back by hitting him with a bag of White Claw alcoholic beverage cans she was carrying. She says her attacker backed off and she was able to run away thinking that the assault was over and she was safe. She pulled out her phone and called 911.
“I’m being attacked. Please help me,” she told the dispatcher. However, she says she didn’t realize that the man caught up to her again and charged at her a second time, which she said was far worse.
“He grabbed my phone out of my hand and smashed it on the ground multiple times,” she said, adding that he appeared “gleeful” and took “great joy” in hurting her. “I just knew that this person is not OK, there is no way to ration or reason with him.” RECOMMENDED VIDEO The woman recounted that the man knocked her down and she landed on her back.
She says she then starting kicking him. “I was kicking the f—— s— out of him. Kicking his chest, kicking his face, screaming, screaming.
” She said he yelled for her to shut up and called her a “stupid b—-” and the c-word. “Everything you would expect a loser man to be yelling at you while he’s trying to kill you.” She says that while she was kicking him, the attacker pulled off one of her shoes.
She says she managed to get away before he assaulted her a third time, getting punched in the face repeatedly before she briefly blacked out. At that moment, she thought her life about to end. “I just kept telling myself, ‘Get up, get up, get up.
You’re hurt. This sucks. You’re bleeding.
Get up because you’re going to f——- die.” WARMINGTON: Peel cops fatally shoot ‘high risk’ offender at Pearson airportToronto man, 28, accused of sexual assault at Vaughan mallEtobicoke man accused of sexually assaulting girl, 13, faces more charges with different victim She says she managed to get away again and ran as fast as she could toward a group of people who were actually plainclothes police officers who realized she was under a lot of distress from the bleeding and torn pants. She says the man, who was still chasing her, was immediately arrested.
She says the undercover cops took her statements and collected evidence, including the bloodied shopping bag of White Claw drinks that were busted open and her missing shoe. “Every single first responder that I dealt with, from the police to the EMTs, doctors, nurses in the hospital, the victims’ services units that I’ve been dealing with afterwards, were so wonderful,” she said. “I cannot be grateful enough.
” Police charged Peterhans Jalo Nungu with assault causing bodily harm, according to court records obtained by the Vancouver Sun . He was scheduled to appear in court on Wednesday and remains in custody. Nungu was also charged April 13 after police in Surrey alleged he uttered threats and assaulted an officer.
He was listed as a board member at large of Lead Disability Inclusive Society B.C. , a Surrey-based nonprofit that supports people with disabilities and their families, but that information was removed from the organization’s website as of Thursday afternoon.
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