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Police release video surveillance image of a suspect wanted for questioning for attempted murder at Yonge-Bloor metro station
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April 18, 2022 • 1 hour • 2 minutes ago reading • 30 comments Photo from Toronto Police Department
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Toronto police released a photo of the suspect wanted for attempted murder on Sunday night at the Yonge-Bloor metro station.
Officers responded to a call at 9:03 p.m., saying a 39-year-old woman walking on the platform was pushed to the subway rails by another woman.
Police initially said the victim was hit by a subway train, but after being transported to hospital, they later said the victim was seriously injured without danger to life from the fall.
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POLICE INVESTIGATION: Bloor St East + Yonge St 21:09 – Yonge Subway Stn – Reports that a woman was pushed to the rails, hit by a train – Several ambulances are o / s Suspect: woman, white, pink / gray hat , black puffy jkt, gray hoodie, black pants, red bag # GO716967 ^ lb
– Toronto Police Operations (@TPSOperations) April 18, 2022
This morning, CCTV footage of the alleged perpetrator was released, describing the woman as blond, medium-sized, wearing a Levi’s gray shirt, black jacket, black pants, white shoes, pink and gray heels and a gray bag.
“There are a number of different motives for people to do this, and they are different in all situations,” media spokesman David Hopkinson told the National Post. “We do not know the specific motive for this particular case, because we have not yet caught the person responsible.
Yonge-Bloor Metro Station is no stranger to such events.
Just four months ago, 36-year-old Jordan Dallard was hit and towed by an oncoming train after being pushed to the rails after an argument with another man on the platform.
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“I was walking very close to the track,” he told Global News. “I shouldn’t have been so close.”
Dallard’s injuries were serious but not life-threatening, and he survived, police said.
Doctors told him that this was the first time they had been able to “have a face-to-face conversation and get the patient to answer who was hit by a train”.
The 26-year-old attacker turned himself in to police and was charged with assault.
In 2018, a fatal accident occurred at Yonge-Bloor metro station when 73-year-old Yosuke Hayahara was killed after being pushed to the subway tracks on June 18.
After the case went to court in 2021, the suspect, 57-year-old John Reshetnik of Toronto, claims to have pushed the victim onto the track, thinking it was his landlord. Reshetnik told a police officer that he was “shocked” because he was being expelled.
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“I was scared,” he told the court. “I imagined my landlord kicking me out, and I can’t find a place and I’ll be homeless. I really did. It is not a joke. I killed him, for God’s sake. “
In April of that year, Reshetnik was sentenced to life in prison with no chance of parole for 14 years after pleading guilty to second-degree murder.
Concerned citizens turned to social media to express their concern.
“These situations are happening more often now,” Twitter user emlwardfit said. “It used to be rare, but now it seems to be during the day.”
Events like these are no longer far away.
Asked if subway stations had become more dangerous after the city imposed a number of blockades, Officer Hopkinson did not “want to respond anecdotally based on a situation this weekend.”
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