Couple Assaulted Outside Store For Buying Bud Light

Global News reports:

“Possible hate-motivated” assaults outside of a Vaughan liquor store last weekend were likely initiated over a suspected Bud Light purchase, police say. York Regional Police issued a news release about the incident, which happened at around 8:30 p.m. Saturday.

A man and a woman were allegedly accosted by several males outside of a store located in the Jane Street and Major Mackenzie Drive West area. “One of the suspects commented on the male victim’s choice of alcohol and uttered anti-homosexual derogatory slurs as he approached the victim,” police said in a news release.

The female, a 27-year-old woman, had to go to hospital to be treated for her injuries, officers said. The 26-year-old man suffered minor injuries and didn’t need medical attention.

Read the full article. Police say that the couple didn’t actually buy Bud Light, adding that “rainbow colors” on the cans likely spurred the attack. More details are in the clip below. As you can see, police have good photos of the alleged assailants.

Help us identify this suspect and two others sought for a possible hate-motivated assault that occurred outside a liquor store in the area of Jane St. and Major Mackenzie Dr. W. in Vaughan on Sat., May 6th, 2023, around 8:30 p.m.

More information here: https://t.co/OMRZF9vmi9 pic.twitter.com/p9LtIrfuB7

— York Regional Police (@YRP) May 9, 2023