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Vancouver man convicted in 2017 stabbing spree

Bradley Michael Mazerolle has been found guilty of three counts of aggravated assault
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This map shows the route of Bradley Michael Mazerolle’s stabbing spree on the morning of March 2, 2017. Google maps

The Vancouver man charged in a series of stabbings in March 2017 has been found guilty of three counts of aggravated assault.

Bradley Michael Mazerolle, who is in his 30s, was charged with three counts of aggravated assault and one count of assault following a series of random attacks that took place within a seven-block radius between West Broadway and Cambie Street and Main Street and East Second Avenue on the morning of March 2, 2017.

It all started just before 8:30 a.m. when a delivery driver entered the ATM vestibule at the Coast Capital Savings on Broadway near Cambie Street to make a delivery. According to court documents, Mazerolle was sitting on the floor next to a shopping cart and a bag, reading a bible. The driver had to ask him to move, he complied and the driver finished his delivery and left.

As he walked away, he heard the sound of a shopping cart behind him and then felt several strong blows to the back of his head. He instinctively brought his hand up to his head and his hand was cut, almost severing a finger.

The driver stumbled west across Cambie Street where he was found by police.

Mazerolle fled east along Broadway toward Yukon where a second victim, who was walking to work, was allegedly punched in the face, however the Judge Reginald Harris found Mazerolle not guilty of that offence saying that “there is minimal evidence linking Mr. Mazerolle to the assault…” based on the description given by the victim.

A short time later, a third victim was stabbed at Quebec and East Fourth Avenue, followed by a fourth victim who has just gotten off a bus at Main Street and East Second.

A woman who was driving by and witnessed the attack on Quebec Street decided that while others had stopped to help the victim, she would follow the assailant. She parked her car and called 911 while she followed him on foot.

She followed him for several blocks, also witnessing the assault at Main and East Second before flagging down a police car and telling the officer which way the assailant had gone. A second witness, a man who had been standing at the bus stop on Main and East Second, told the court he saw the assailant flee towards East Second. The witness called 911 and followed the man as he headed into an alley on Quebec and East Second. The witness then saw a police officer and pointed out the assailant.

Mazerolle was arrested in the alley just before 9 a.m. A bloody knife was found by an employee near a ramp into a parking garage for a business in the area. It was seized by police and sent for DNA testing, and while it was not found to contain any fingerprints or DNA from Mazerolle, it did have DNA from two of the victims as well as “DNA of mixed origin with an unknown contributor.”

Following his arrest in the March 2 attacks, Mazerolle was also charged with assault with a weapon and aggravated assault in an attack on a homeless man, who was sleeping in a wheelchair inside a bank vestibule, a few days earlier on Feb. 26.

The judge found Mazerolle not guilty on those charges, saying that did not match the description of the suspect in that case and there was no forensic evidence or witnesses linking him to the crime.

Mazerolle was found guilty of aggravated assault in all three stabbings. In each case, the judge found that witness descriptions and surveillance video footage captured by cameras at several businesses and on the bus matched what his appearance at the time of his arrest.

@JessicaEKerr

jkerr@vancourier.com