Police are investigating after a woman was knocked unconscious following an apparent random attack at Kipling Station.
It happened around 11:15
Police say the victim, believed to be in her 60s, was walking through the transit station when she was approached by the suspect.
The suspect then allegedly punched the woman in the face without provocation, knocking her unconscious.
The victim was revived at the scene but then taken to hospital with serious but non-life threatening injuries, paramedics said.
The suspect was last seen at the station and it is unclear if he boarded a bus or subway.
He is described as a black male in his 30s. He was wearing a black shirt, black pants, a black dress and a white scarf.
The incident comes after another “random attack” at Kipling station last month, in which a woman was allegedly set on fire. That woman was rushed to hospital with second and third degree burns, but died from her injuries earlier this week.
The suspect is facing multiple charges in connection with this incident.
There have also been a number of other violent incidents on the TTC in recent months, including one that saw a woman pushed onto the tracks at Bloor-Yonge Station in April. The victim in that incident is suing the TTC for $1 million.
“I know on days like today it’s a little hollow to say the TTC is safe, but it is. By any measure, the TTC is a safe system. We move hundreds of millions of people every year, the vast majority of them without incident, but on days like today and the ones we’ve seen recently, there’s an understandable nervousness that people feel about riding the TTC,” spokesman Stuart Green told CP24 on Thursday afternoon.
“That’s why we have an obligation to do everything we can to make the TTC even safer and give people that confidence that we have staff available for them, we have cameras available, we have all these things that are deterrents, but also can react in case of accidental attack.
Green said TTC CEO Rick Leary spoke with Police Chief James Ramer after the latest incident about ways safety could be improved at Kipling Station.
He said additional special TTC police officers will also be stationed at Kipling Station.
“Unfortunately, with random attacks, they are by definition just that. They are things that are very difficult to defend against and plan for, but we can do some things and we have additional staff that we can deploy at Kipling,” he said.
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