21-Year-Old Man Charged In One Of Two Stabbings
Posted November 22, 2009 4:42 pm.
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Police have charged a 21-year-old man with assault and weapon possession after an attack on a teen on Saturday night.
It happened at about 8:30pm, on Bergamot Avenue, near Rexdale Boulevard and Islington Avenue.
The accused, Justin Butt, allegedly approached a 19-year-old he didn’t know and stabbed him in the torso.
Both were treated at Sunnybrook hospital and released. Butt, who had received minor facial injuries, was taken into police custody upon his release.
In a separate incident around 11pm on Glendower Circuit, near Birchmount Road and Finch Avenue, a man was stabbed and taken to hospital with non-life threatening injuries.