Surrey attack injures woman, pepper spray clears apartments
Attackers were trying to collect a drug debt, according to Surrey RCMP
A Surrey woman's wounds were flushed out at hospital after an early morning pepper spray attack Oct. 3.
A trio of men showed up at her downstairs apartment at 1 a.m. PT trying to collect a drug debt, said police.
The woman lives near the 10600 block of 142A St.
Surrey RCMP Staff Sgt. Dale Carr says the attackers were trying to collect a drug debt from a man who was not at the suite, but a woman who was home suffered severe irritation when pepper spray got into some of her open wounds.
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Paramedics with the B.C Ambulance Service took the woman to hospital to have the wounds flushed out.
The residents in the upstairs apartment had to evacuate their suite, when the pepper spray spread throughout the house. They complained of choking, coughing, and had trouble breathing.
Neighbours, who saw the trio flee, could not provide a description.
