Halifax police are asking for help investigating a serious assault that began with a table flying through the window of a North End café and ended with one man being hospitalized for nearly a month.
Halifax Regional Police responded to a call around 1 a.m. on Jan. 1 that a man had thrown a table through the front window of Alteregos Café on Gottingen Street.
Officers found the man shortly after lying on Cunard Street, with serious injuries that were believed to be sustained in a fall.
He was taken to hospital, where he remains to this day, but investigators have yet to speak with him due to the seriousness of his injuries.
On Jan. 22, investigators got a tip the man had actually been the victim of an assault — information that was later confirmed by video surveillance footage retrieved from the area, showing the man being assaulted by two people.
Police are now looking for two suspects — a white man and a black woman, both believed to be in their 20s — and are asking for the public’s help to identify them.
Police describe the man as being 5’10” with a small build, wearing grey skinny jeans, a white shirt, black jacket, and a long blue scarf at the time of the incident.
The woman has long black hair and wore a long blue shirt and blue jeans at the time of the incident, police say.
Anyone with information about the case is asked to call Halifax Regional Police at 902-490-5016, or Crime Stoppers at 1-800-222-TIPS.
