An 18-year-old Colwood resident has been charged with assault and vehicle theft after a taxi driver was badly hurt in a carjacking on Sooke Road last month.
West Shore RCMP received a report about a taxi being carjacked in the 2300-block of Sooke Road, near Metchosin Road, just after midnight on April 15.
A video from the taxi shows a dark-haired shirtless male hurling himself against the windshield of the moving vehicle and breaking it, then getting up. In a second video taken by a witness, the male is seen opening the driver’s door, pulling out the driver and flinging them to the ground, and driving away.
Police are looking for help identifying the driver or passengers of a white vehicle that can be seen in both videos driving past the taxi as the incident is taking place.
The vehicle did not stop.
The Colwood teen, who was believed to have been under the influence of drugs at the time of the incident, has been charged with assault, assault causing bodily harm, assaulting a police officer, mischief to property under $5,000 and theft of a motor vehicle.
Anyone who was in the white vehicle or has information about what happened is asked to call West Shore RCMP at 250-474-2264.
Cpl. Nancy Saggar said this kind of carjacking is rare.
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