Woman Survives Terrifying Random Knife Attack
Posted January 24, 2007 12:00 pm.
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It was a violent and horrific attack she didn’t see coming.
A young woman is expected to recover after being stabbed in the back in the city’s east end while walking her one-year-old baby in a stroller.
What makes the crime so disturbing is that it appears to have been a totally random attack.
Police were called to Danforth and Woodbine after the victim called them at about 10am. She claims she didn’t know the person that wielded the bloody blade.
“It appears the assailant randomly perhaps picked her, stabbed her and ran,” outlines Sgt. Dave Fletcher.
Christine Davidson was horrified when she heard her friend had been so savagely and senselessly accosted. “It came out of nowhere,” she relates. “He looked at her and ‘ha ha!’ laughed, then ran off. That’s all she remembers.”
But there was nothing funny about what he did to the victim. She remains in serious but stable condition in St. Michael’s Hospital suffering from a punctured lung. Fortunately, her baby wasn’t harmed.
“I don’t understand what he was getting at from laughing,” Davidson puzzles. “Was it a joke. Did he think it was funny?”
The woman managed to make it home and call police. Then she called her best friend.
“When she made the phone call to my daughter it’s like she was hysterical,” Davidson recalls.
The blade, which was discovered abandoned on a nearby lawn, is about six inches long and could have done even more damage. A 27-year-old man has been taken into custody and charged with attempted murder.
It’s the second such unprovoked attack this month. On January 6 th, a woman was standing at the Main Subway station on a Saturday night when a stranger approached her from the rear, pulled out a knife and stabbed her in the back. He then fled, leaving the passenger wounded and pleading for help.
Cops have since issued a public safety alert about that crime, but no arrests have been made.
But they don’t believe the bizarre incidents are connected because the suspect descriptions are so different.
But the latest event has people in the area worried. “Night time was one thing but there’s too many stabbings going on in the Danforth area,” observes Vivien Barlow who tends bar in a neighbourhood pub.”It makes it scary to go to work.”
Meanwhile, Davidson is wondering if there are other apparent armed lunatics out there waiting to strike someone else.
“We just hope for the best and hope it doesn’t happen to somebody else you know.”
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