Date of publication: 18 Apr 2022 • 4 hours ago • 2 minutes reading • 23 comments Photo by Toronto Police
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Toronto police have released a picture of the suspect wanted for a homicide attempt that took place on Sunday afternoon at the Yonge-Bloor subway station. Police responded to a call at 9:03 p.m. and say a 39-year-old woman walking on the platform was pushed into subway lines by another woman. Police initially said the victim was hit by a subway train, but after she was taken to hospital, she later clarified that the victim suffered serious, non-life-threatening injuries from the fall.
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POLICE INVESTIGATION: Bloor St East + Yonge St 9:09 pm- Yonge Subway Stn- Reported that a woman was pushed into the lines, hit by a train- Many emergency service units are suspects: female, white, pink / gray hat, black inflated jkt, gray hood, black pants, red bag # GO716967 ^ lb
– Toronto Police Operations (@TPSOperations) April 18, 2022
An image of the alleged perpetrator was released this morning, depicting the woman with blond hair, with a medium physique, wearing a gray “Levi’s” shirt, black jacket, black pants, white shoes, pink and gray tock and holding a gray bag .
“There are many different motivations for people to do this and they differ in all situations,” media relations officer David Hopkinson told the National Post. “In this particular case, we do not know the specific motive, because we have not yet arrested the person in charge.”
Yonge-Bloor subway station is no stranger to such incidents.
Just four months ago, 36-year-old Jordan Dallard was hit and dragged by an incoming train after being pushed into the tracks after an altercation with another man on the platform.
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“I was walking very close to the track,” he told Global News. “I should not have been so close.” Dallard’s injuries were serious but not life-threatening and he survived, police said. Doctors told him this was the first time they had been able to “have a face-to-face conversation and get the patient to respond, who was hit by a train”. The 26-year-old perpetrator surrendered to the police and faced the charge of aggravated assault. In 2018, a fatal accident took place at Yonge-Bloor subway station, when 73-year-old Yosuke Hayahara was killed after being pushed into subway lines on June 18. After the case went to court in 2021, the suspect, 57-year-old John Reszetnik from Toronto, claimed that he pushed the victim on the track thinking he was the owner. Reshetnik told a police officer that he was “scared” because he was being chased.
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“I was terrified,” he told the court. “I imagined my landlord evicting me, and I can not find a place, and I will be homeless. I really did. It’s not funny. I killed him, for God’s sake. “ In April of the same year, Reszetnik was sentenced to life in prison without any possibility of release for 14 years after pleading guilty to second-degree murder. Anxious citizens took to social media to express their concern. “These situations happen more often now,” said the Twitter user “emlwardfit”. “It used to be rare, but now it seems every day.” Such phenomena are no longer distant and few. Asked if subway stations had become more dangerous since the city introduced multiple lockdowns, Officer Hopkinson “did not want to answer jokes based on a situation that happened this weekend.”
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