David Morin, who stabbed stranger in 2022, released: VPD [Video]

Vancouver police are warning the public that the man who stabbed a stranger in a downtown coffee shop in January 2022 has been released and will be living in the city again.

David Morin plans to reside at a halfway house in Vancouver, the Vancouver Police Department said in a news release Friday afternoon.

Morin was sentenced to three years in prison in June 2022, but has been granted statutory release by the Correctional Service of Canada, according to the VPD.

“Police believe Morin poses a high risk of significant harm to the community, and that compelling circumstances exist to warn the public that he will be living in Vancouver,” police said in their release.

Then 27 years old, Morin was arrested and charged with aggravated assault a few days after attacking a Mexican tourist inside the Tim Hortons in Harbour Centre in January 2022. The violent assault was recorded …