Toronto police are trying to identify a suspect after a male victim was strangled until he lost consciousness and then robbed after getting off the subway train at Pioneer Village Station.
The victim was on a train north of the TTC around 9:15 p.m. a week ago on April 12.
When he got off the train at Pioneer Village Station, near Steeles Avenue West and Jane Street, he was followed by a suspect.
He was caught in the back of the platform and strangled until he lost consciousness, police said.
The suspect then took the victim’s belongings and fled the area, police said.
The suspect is described as a man wearing a black North Face jacket and black pants.
Photos of the suspect were released by investigators late Tuesday.
Police are asking anyone with information to contact investigators or call Crime Stoppers anonymously.
TTC has faced calls for better security recently after a woman was pushed onto the subway tracks at Bloor-Yonge station on Sunday and narrowly escaped an oncoming train by rolling under the edge of the platform.
In another incident late last night, a man was stabbed in the neck at St. George’s Station in what police called an “unprovoked attack.”
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