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rfmcdonaldLate last evening, there was a stabbing on board a subway train approaching Davisville station by a man who has just been identified and charged.
Toronto police have identified and charged the man wanted in the unprovoked stabbing of a 45-year-old man on a subway train Wednesday evening.
Cassim Celani Cummings, 20, faces several charges including attempted murder and aggravated assault in relation to the incident, which took place as he was riding the Yonge Line, near Davisville station.
He has yet to be arrested.
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The attack took place at about 10:20 p.m., police said. A passenger activated the alarm and emergency crews met the train at Davisville station. The suspect exited the train and ran away.
There was no significant interaction between the suspect and the victim before the stabbing, said Const. Tony Vella.
“The suspect was approaching [different] people on the train,” he said. “Then he went up to [the victim] and stabbed him.”
Toronto has also come up on the one-year anniversary of a thankfully non-fatal stabbing of a TTC collector at Dupont station.
There is not, as far as I can tell, any particular panic caused by yesterday's stabbing and the recent anniversary. Torontonians experience the TTC as frustrating, yes, but very rarely unsafe. It's being taken as just one of those random, but rare, things.
Cassim Celani Cummings, 20, faces several charges including attempted murder and aggravated assault in relation to the incident, which took place as he was riding the Yonge Line, near Davisville station.
He has yet to be arrested.
[. . .]
The attack took place at about 10:20 p.m., police said. A passenger activated the alarm and emergency crews met the train at Davisville station. The suspect exited the train and ran away.
There was no significant interaction between the suspect and the victim before the stabbing, said Const. Tony Vella.
“The suspect was approaching [different] people on the train,” he said. “Then he went up to [the victim] and stabbed him.”
Toronto has also come up on the one-year anniversary of a thankfully non-fatal stabbing of a TTC collector at Dupont station.
Toronto police have chased down many leads, but have still not been able to find the person who shot a TTC collector at Dupont station a year ago.
Staff Insp. Mike Earl reminded reporters on Tuesday afternoon that the same suspect had actually robbed the subway station on two prior occasions before the shooting on Feb. 26, 2012.
But no shots were fired until the incident on a Sunday night last year when the on-duty collector was wounded.
"The collector had no cash, or provided no cash to the suspect, at which time the suspect turned, commenced to walk away from the victim and then turned and fired three shots," he said during a news conference at police headquarters.
Earl said the TTC collector was hit in the bicep and the neck.
The suspect then fled the station and went to a parking lot at Spadina Avenue and Macpherson Avenue and entered a silver vehicle.
Earl said the public has provided many tips to police, but none have resulted in an arrest.
There is not, as far as I can tell, any particular panic caused by yesterday's stabbing and the recent anniversary. Torontonians experience the TTC as frustrating, yes, but very rarely unsafe. It's being taken as just one of those random, but rare, things.
