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6%
1 of 17 hedged
("reportedly", "may", "according to")
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Woman, 48, and boy, 12, arrested after air cadet leader assaulted while selling poppies at Centre on Barton
The man suffered 'life-altering' injuries, police said
A man helping young air cadets sell poppies in Hamilton suffered "life-altering" injuries after an alleged assault by a 12-year-old boy and a 48-year-old woman, Hamilton police say.
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police → arrest → boy
The man, 59, is a commanding officer for the Royal Canadian Air Cadets and was supervising the selling of Remembrance Day poppies on Sunday when two boys approached them and "blew a loud air horn directly into [the young cadets'] ears," police said in a release on Monday.
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police → command → Monday
The man followed the boys into the restaurant "to confront them about their actions," police said on Monday.
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police → follow → Monday
According to police, "a struggle ensued" and a woman who was not initially involved started assisting the boys and assaulted the victim, causing him to fall.
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him → accord → victim
One of the boys hit the victim "several times," police said, before leaving the scene.
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police → hit → scene
The woman also left before police arrived.
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police → leave → ?
Police said when officers arrived, the man was suffering from serious injuries, which paramedics attended to before taking him to hospital.
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paramedics → say → hospital
The 12-year-old boy was arrested and charged with aggravated assault and assault level one.
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boy → arrest → assault
Police found him and the other boy later that day after reports of "a new, unrelated disturbance."
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Police → find → disturbance
The second boy was not arrested, police say "as officers were able to see footage of the incident and determined his role/actions."
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officers → arrest → actions
The woman was arrested Monday morning and charged with aggravated assault.
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woman → arrest → assault
'Unsettling' seeing kids so young involved in assault
Veronica Formosa, who says she saw the aftermath of the incident, was arriving at the Mandarin restaurant at the Centre on Barton when she saw two kids running from the restaurant to Boston Pizza next door.
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kids → see → Pizza
When she went inside the Mandarin, a hostess at the restaurant told her she couldn't be seated due to an "incident that involved a man and some youths fighting."
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man → go → incident
People at the restaurant were telling her what happened when the same two kids ran back into the Mandarin and left shortly after.
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kids → tell → Mandarin
Formosa said she later saw the man, who seemed to be wearing military-style clothing, being cared for by paramedics.
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who → say → paramedics
Formosa said the boys looked "really young."
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boys → say → ?
"And to be involved in something like this, that's unsettling," she said.
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she → involve → this
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