A man was taken to hospital after he was struck by an object that was thrown from a building in Vancouver's Downtown Eastside.
On Monday, June 12 around 7:30 p.m., pedestrians informed a Vancouver Police Department (VPD) officer about a man who was struck by an object near East Hastings and Carrall streets, according to Sgt. Steve Addison.
While the officer tended to the injured man, several other items were thrown down from a building onto the sidewalk.
Police closed the area on East Hastings to traffic due to the "risk of injury to the public" at the front of the building, Addison told V.I.A.
"We then identified the apartment from which the objects were being thrown and arrested a man in his forties who is believed to have been throwing the items," he said.
The VPD tweeted that an individual was "throwing objects from his suite 10 floors above street level."
The injured man was taken to hospital and currently has non-life-threatening injuries.
An investigation is ongoing and may result in criminal charges.
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