A Canada-wide arrest warrant has been issued for an Edmonton woman charged in connection with a violent road rage assault in Mission, B.C., that hospitalized a young couple earlier this fall.
Authorities in B.C. and Alberta are joining forces to locate 35-year-old Amber Jenelle Toews, one of two suspects believed to be involved in the Sept. 8 baseball bat attack that left a 21-year-old female and a 20-year-old male with “significant but non-life-threatening injuries,” said RCMP in Mission, about an hour east of Vancouver.
The other suspect, 38-year-old Edmonton resident Johnathan Hebrada-Walters, was fatally shot in an unrelated gang incident, according to a police press release. His body was found in Langley, B.C., less than two weeks after the road rage incident.
Police said charges “have now been approved against the female involved in the road rage incident.” She is charged with assault with a weapon, assault causing bodily harm, and mischief under $5,000.
The charges come several weeks after the incident that began in a Tim Hortons drive-through in Mission, B.C.
The young couple, who were driving a grey Honda Civic, honked their horn at the occupants of a black Chevrolet Malibu in front of them in the Tim Hortons line because the vehicle was not moving forward, police said in a Sept. 9 press release.
After the Malibu exited the drive-through, the occupants waited for the Civic to exit and drove alongside the vehicle so the female occupant of the Malibu could throw her coffee cup at the other car, police said.
The Malibu followed the Civic to an intersection where the driver and passenger got out of their vehicle to assault both occupants of the Civic with a baseball bat, before getting back into the Malibu and driving off, police said. The Malibu was later found unoccupied and was seized by police.
“This appears to have been an extreme case of road rage,” Cpl. Harrison Mohr said in the press release. “I’m sure we’ve all seen someone in a drive-through lane give a little honk to let the person in front know they can move up. No one expects to be assaulted as a result of it.”
Toews is described as a white female, with short light-blonde hair, a sleeve tattoo on her left arm, and a tattoo encircling her right thigh.
She has been known to travel around B.C. and other western provinces, and there is no evidence confirming her return to Alberta, police said.
Anyone with information about Toews’ whereabouts is asked to contact their local police department or Mission RCMP.
