VICTORIA A pair teens were taken into police custody following an allegedly targeted case of arson at a View Royal home this weekend. West Shore RCMP say the fire broke out around 5:20 a.m. Saturday at a home on Newstead Crescent. When officers arrived, firefighters with the View Royal Fire Department were already responding to the scene and extinguished the fire. The flames, however, caused significant damage to the front porch of the home before they were put out. Police say they determined the fire was deliberately set and quickly identified two suspects. Police have determined that this was a targeted incident and do not believe the public is at risk, said Const. Nancy Saggar of the West Shore RCMP in a release Wednesday.
VICTORIA A young fawn that was stuck in an iron gate was freed by first responders Wednesday. The baby deer, with its worried mother nearby, was found on a property on Porcher Place in Colwood around 10:30 p.m. West Shore RCMP were the first to arrive on the scene and saw the deer was “frantically struggling to get out of the fence.” Police then called Colwood Fire and Rescue to help assist with freeing the deer. Firefighters had to use a hydraulic spreader to bend the bars of the metal gate so that the fawn could slip free. “The homeowners were very understanding and gave permission to manipulate the fence as required but Colwood Fire and Rescue was able to restore the fence to near original state,” said Const. Nancy Saggar of the West Shore RCMP in a release Friday.
“It’s scary,” said Jacobs, who works for the Victoria-based Support Network for Indigenous Women and Women of Colour. “It makes you feel really, really unsure. It makes you feel afraid of who are my neighbours.”
The white supremacist message a statement against the Black Lives Matter anti-racism rallying cry was spray-painted on the wall of a building under construction on West Shore Parkway near Landing Lane. It was reported to West Shore RCMP on Jan. 21. The next day, the department was informed that swastikas and racial slurs had been painted on trees at Royal Roads.
West Shore RCMP spokeswoman Const. Nancy Saggar said police have not identified any suspects or direct witnesses in either incident. Investigators are not certain that the two incidents are related, so they are being investigated separately, Saggar said.
VICTORIA Police say they are investigating after racist graffiti was found in two separate areas of the West Shore last week. The first incident was discovered on Jan. 21 when a white supremacist comment was discovered at a construction site on West Shore Parkway near Landing Lane. The comment was spray-painted on an upper block wall of the construction zone, according to West Shore RCMP. The second incident was reported one day later in Royal Roads Park, near the 3200-block of Metchosin Road. Police say that several trees had swastikas and racial slurs against the Black community spray-painted on them.
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