The man who pleaded guilty to attacking two strangers with a machete outside a Vancouver hotel will be sentenced May 14.
Kenneth Stephen Solowan appeared by video before Vancouver Provincial Court Judge Donna Senniw on April 28.
He initially pleaded not guilty to two counts of aggravated assault in January 2023 but changed his pleas to guilty by December of that year.
The attack happened in front of the Empress Hotel in the Downtown Eastside on June 19, 2022, when two people loading luggage into a taxi were attacked by a stranger.
Both of the victims suffered significant injuries and required hospitalization.
A Vancouver Police Department patrol officer was flagged down but the suspect fled immediately after the attack and investigators could only get a limited description.
Police said evidence, including of a man fleeing the area, as well as tips from the public, helped detectives identify Solowan as a suspect.
Solowan was arrested near Chinatown and charged two months after the attack.
April 25 had been set as the date for sentencing submissions but Crown prosecutor Jim Cryder told Senniw sentencing is now set for the second week in May.
Solowan was in August 2022 but allegedly breached his conditions immediately.
He was re-arrested several weeks later in Mission, where someone recognized him from a picture released by Vancouver police.
Solowan remains in custody.
