B.C. man charged after someone tried to set sleeping SkyTrain passenger on fire

A 37-year-old Surrey resident has been charged in connection with a December 2025 alleged “unprovoked assault” on a man who was sleeping on the SkyTrain.
On Dec. 16, a man was asleep on a SkyTrain that was travelling from Vancouver to Burnaby when the suspect “allegedly poured a liquid on the victim’s clothing and attempted to ignite it,” noted a Metro Vancouver Transit Police news release Wednesday (Jan. 14). “Several bystanders intervened, removed the suspec