{"id":595867,"date":"2026-02-17T07:52:13","date_gmt":"2026-02-17T07:52:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/595867\/"},"modified":"2026-02-17T07:52:13","modified_gmt":"2026-02-17T07:52:13","slug":"youth-arrested-in-victoria-charged-after-nanaimo-mall-shooting-nanaimonewsnow","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/595867\/","title":{"rendered":"Youth arrested in Victoria &#038; charged after Nanaimo mall shooting | NanaimoNewsNOW"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The alleged young offender faces a number of charges, including discharging a firearm, aggravated assault, assault with a weapon and two firearm possession charges.<\/p>\n<p>\t<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/indicator-big.gif\" alt=\"\"\/><\/p>\n<p>An initial court appearance by the unidentified male transpired on Friday, Feb. 13.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis was a significant and concerning incident involving youth violence in our community,\u201d Insp. Donovan Tait, operations officer of the Nanaimo RCMP, said in a statement. \u201cThe quick response by our officers and with collaboration by VicPD and GVERT, played a crucial role in safely taking the alleged suspect into custody.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Police said at the time of the incident a confrontation broke out among a group of youth at the mall.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cBear spray was produced, and in turn, another individual produced a firearm. One [youth] was shot. That person was taken to hospital on their own accord, treated for a non-life-threatening injury and later released.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>While the incident occurred Wednesday, it wasn\u2019t until Thursday morning when the full scope of the shooting unfolded and Mounties found a shell casing.<\/p>\n<p>Several employees of businesses inside the mall were also interviewed by police on Thursday, while the mall\u2019s number three entrance was temporarily closed. <\/p>\n<p><strong>Follow us on Facebook. <\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/everythingnanaimo\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\">Join Everything Nanaimo on Facebook<\/a> and stay connected with everything happening on central Vancouver Island.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/nanaimonewsnow.com\/2026\/02\/16\/youth-arrested-in-victoria-after-nanaimo-mall-shooting\/mailto:info@nanaimonewsnow.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\">info@nanaimonewsnow.com<\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Follow us on:<\/strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.twitter.com\/nanaimonewsnow\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\">Twitter (X)<\/a> | <a href=\"https:\/\/bsky.app\/profile\/nanaimonewsnow.bsky.social\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\">Bluesky<\/a> | <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/everythingnanaimo\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\">Facebook<\/a><\/p>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The alleged young offender faces a number of charges, including discharging a firearm, aggravated assault, assault with a&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":595868,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[2],"tags":[104,2147,23406,23401,23407,23400,23402,23403,50,18010,23404,23405,62],"class_list":["post-595867","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-news","tag-breaking-news","tag-canada","tag-central-vancouver-island","tag-nanaimo","tag-nanaimo-breaking-news","tag-nanaimo-news","tag-nanaimo-news-now","tag-nanaimonewsnow","tag-news","tag-oceanside","tag-parksville","tag-qualicum","tag-sports"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/116084889763266472","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/595867","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=595867"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/595867\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/595868"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=595867"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=595867"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=595867"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}