Victim struck in the face with cell phone in Kitchener, charges laid
Posted Dec 1, 2025 09:09:30 AM.
Last Updated Dec 1, 2025 09:54:41 AM.
A Kitchener man is facing charges, including assault with a weapon, after striking a victim in the face with a cell phone.
Officers from the Waterloo Regional Police Service responded to the scene soon after 11:30, Sunday night, at a business around Ottawa Street South and Strasburg Road in Kitchener.
Police said the victim and a 22-year-old man had arranged to meet at the location through an online app.
Police said the 22-year-old hit the victim in the face with a cell phone, but their injuries were “not serious in nature.”
Charges laid against the Kitchener man are assault and assault with a weapon.
Police can not specify if the two had met up for a sale of goods.
