VICTORIA - A 15-year-old Victoria girl is in stable condition after being attacked by a gang of youths Friday night.
Police responded to a call at about 11 p.m. to find the girl distraught and bleeding. She told officers she had been attacked by two young men and two young women.
About an hour later, police received a report of another similar assault. A police dog unit followed a scent from one of the scenes to a beach where a 21-year-old man, a 20-year-old woman and a 17-year-old girl were arrested.
Victoria was the scene of a swarming attack that drew worldwide attention after Reena Virk was swarmed and killed under the city's Craigflower Bridge in 1997.
Kelly Ellard, 15 at the time, was charged in the death of Virk, 14, who was beaten and drowned in Victoria's Gorge waterway. Ellard was raised to adult court and after three trials she was convicted in April 2005 of second-degree murder. A fourth trial is expected after another appeal.
Ellard's accomplice, Warren Glowatski, convicted of second-degree murder, was granted unescorted temporary passes from prison by the National Parole Board last year.
