Police issue photos of suspect in Vancouver assault [Video]

The Vancouver Police Department is requesting the public’s help in identifying a suspect involved in the assault of a 16-year-old girl earlier this year.

The incident in question occurred on Aug. 25, on a bus journey from West Vancouver to downtown, police said in a release issued Friday.

The girl and a friend boarded the 250-line bus in West Vancouver around 5:45 p.m. Believing a man on the bus was staring at them, they had both commented aloud to each other about his behaviour, police said in the release.

When the girls departed the bus at Pacific Centre, near Granville and Georgia Street, the man allegedly followed them and assaulted one of the girls. The VPD said a witness had intervened to stop the assault, but the suspect had fled before police could respond.

Police say the suspect was a white man in his 40s or 50s. He stands at …