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Security guard in stable condition after grocery store assault

A security guard was taken to hospital after an assault at a Sargent Avenue FreshCo Friday, just days after another guard was stabbed during a robbery at a St. James […]

A security guard was hospitalized after being assaulted at a FreshCo grocery store on Friday, following a stabbing at a St. James Dollarama the previous day. Police responded to the Sargent Avenue store around 1 p.m. following reports of an assault. An adult victim was transported to the hospital in stable condition, though police did not disclose the circumstances of the attack or any arrests made.

This incident follows a stabbing at a Dollarama on Tuesday when a 22-year-old security guard was stabbed during a robbery. The guard, Nelson Preston Sumner, 29, was apprehended on Wednesday and faces charges of aggravated assault, robbery, and violating a probation order.

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