Man Stabbed While Waiting At Bus Stop
Posted May 19, 2009 12:00 pm.
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It’s happened again – another attack on a young male in the west end, again at a bus stop.
This time a man was stabbed in the lower back while waiting at a TTC stop on Widdicombe Hill and Kipling, not far from Eglinton Ave.
Police have yet to say how old the victim is or whether this latest incident could be gang related. The patient has been rushed to hospital for treatment but the wounds aren’t considered life threatening.
Bus stops seem to have become a favourite hunting ground for predators in the last two months. They’re open, accessible, there are few places to hide and the victim is standing unsuspecting and a literal waiting target. But they also leave other innocent people vulnerable, since many of the attacks have taken place in broad daylight.
There have been several since the end of April.
The first one took place on April 22nd, when Omar Waite was standing at a stop near Jane and Eglinton. It was the dinner hour, a time when there were a lot of people around. But that didn’t seem to faze the 29-year-old’s attacker. A man appeared from out of nowhere, pulled out a gun and fired it at the unsuspecting victim.
He died a few days later in hospital, leaving witnesses in shock. “I saw the guy laying down in the bus shelter,” remembers Yvette Magwenz. “It was quite scary because I’ve never seen anything like that in this neighbourhood.”
Then just a little over a week later, 18-year-old Jarvis St. Remy left a friend’s house before 11pm to be home for a midnight curfew. As he waited for a bus at the corner of Dundas St. W. and Scarlett Rd., two men came out of the darkness and shot him. He also later died in hospital.
There have been no arrests in either case.
The areas chosen for the attacks have alarmed police, who note the assailants in many of the cases weren’t concerned about who saw them. They were brazen and put others at risk, a fact those behind the weapons didn’t seem to care much about.
The TTC assures they were simply random incidents and reminds riders that millions of people take their vehicles every day without ever encountering a single problem.
