Incident at a downtown Chilliwack shopping centre. (Image Credit: Facebook.)
Altercation among youths

Police confirm altercation among youths, bear spray deployed, at downtown Chilliwack shopping centre

Sep 17, 2026 | 7:49 AM

CHILLIWACK – Police in Chilliwack investigated an altercation over the weekend involving a number of juveniles and bear spray at a downtown Chilliwack shopping centre.

Chilliwack RCMP Corporal Carmen Kiener confirmed in an email to Fraser Valley Today that an incident last Friday night, Sept. 11 involving a group of youths in an altercation that resulted in bear spray being deployed.

Cpl. Kiener says the youth who produced the bear spray suffered most of the contamination and required medical attention.

An anonymous post in the Chilliwack Beware Crime and Safety Facebook group claimed that one youth assaulted another youth with bear spray.

“You people need to get a better grip on your kids, just watched a group of kids mace and then assault another kid at Save On Foods,” the anonymous person said. “Video is after the macing where the kid is smacking the other one with the can of bear mace.”

In another incident Friday night (Sept. 11), a Chilliwack resident in a neighbourhood near Peach Road and Keith Wilson Road claimed that she asked the occupants of a vehicle to turn down their music outside her home, at which point the trio allegedly exited their vehicle, came onto her property, verbally harassed her, and threatened her and her family.

Fraser Valley Today asked Cpl. Kiener about the incident. She said, “We could not locate the subjects of the complaint and the license plate provided did not match the described vehicle, unfortunately. There are no other similar reports of the same individuals matching the provided description.”