Point Grey sexual assault has Vancouver community on high alert
Police still do not have suspect sketch or his identity
Vancouver's West Point Grey community remains on high alert after a 30-year-old woman was sexually assaulted jogging last week.
Police say the woman was running near West 16 Avenue and Discovery Street early in the morning on March 26 when a man approached her, threw her to the ground, then sexually assaulted her.
Police say they still don't have enough information to put together a composite sketch of the suspect or to identify him.
Vivian Bevis, who was at a community forum on Wednesday night, said residents want to know how they can protect themselves.
"They'd like to know what is going on. They certainly don't want to be ignorant of what is going on, so if there is something we can do to make it safer that is what we are going to do."
Investigators are looking into whether the attack is connected with another violent incident just a few hours later in the Strathcona neighbourhood.
Caleb Heaton now faces seven charges in relation to the Strathcona attack.
"To have two violent assaults in the same day a couple of hours apart from each other ... we are looking if there is a connection," said Const. Brian Montague.
"We haven't ruled anything in, we haven't ruled anything out."
Investigators will be back in the neighbourhood in the hopes the suspect comes back to the same area every week at around the same time, said Montague.
There has also been a number of sexual assaults on the nearby UBC campus in recent months.