'Sucker punched me': Edmonton man describes transit assault, asks for more provincial help
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A man who says he was attacked as he exited an Edmonton LRT terminal is calling on the UCP government to do more to help people who are homeless, addicted and violent.
A man who says he was attacked as he exited an Edmonton LRT terminal is calling on the UCP government to do more to help people who are homeless, addicted and violent.
Rob Nicholl got off the train and was walking out of the Southgate station around 8:45 p.m. Saturday when he says he was punched several times.
"I saw a man standing probably two feet from the doors just urinating on the sidewalk openly," he recalled.
"As I squeezed past, and tried not to get his urine on my shoes, I said something like, 'What's wrong with you? Can you pee somewhere else?"
Nicholl said he kept walking but the man came after him.
"I heard him yelling from behind me and then he sucker punched me in the back of the head," he said. "He was asking, 'Do you got anything more to say? Got anything more to say?' And kept throwing more punches."
Nicholl said the attacker continued to follow him down the sidewalk and punched him at least twice. He was "covered in blood" and suffered a concussion and a fractured orbital bone. He has two black eyes and wounds on the front and back of his head.
