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Vancouver police are seeking more victims who were spit on in several assaults in Downtown Vancouver on Sunday.

VPD Sgt. Jason Robillard says Daniel Bielewcz, a 28-year-old Vancouver resident, has been charged with assault. Police allege he spit in the face of a 19-year-old woman in a wheelchair. The incident, which police say was unprovoked and random, happened just after 9 a.m. Sunday on Granville Street near West Georgia Street.

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Video surveillance shows a man walking on the east on the sidewalk of Granville toward West Georgia. Police allege the man appears to spit on the chest of an elderly man, before spitting on two women walking past him. These three people haven’t yet been contacted by police.

“These random assaults are very concerning,” said Robillard. “Spitting on someone is an assault.”

Police are asking anyone who may be a victim to call police at 604-717-3321.

The suspect is known to police. Robillard says investigators aren’t sure what the motive is for the attacks.

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