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Hunt on for 10 suspects in swarming-stabbing: Toronto Violence

by Barry ORegan | October 5, 2008 at 06:43 am

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Barry Artiste Op/Ed

Certainly again,something to think about this election day, we need a adhered and strict crime bill, not liberal kissy face justice currently enjoyed by criminals in this country.

http://cnews.canoe.ca/CNEWS/Crime/2008/10/05/6985391-sun.html

Hunt on for 10 suspects in swarming-stabbing

By DON PEAT, SUN MEDIA

A 16-year-old stabbed in a brazen downtown brawl remained in hospital yesterday but is expected to survive. Toronto Police are searching for 10 suspects in the dust-up which happened early Friday night, a block north of Yonge-Dundas Square, just steps from where Jane Creba was shot in 2005.

"This is not a random act," Staff Sgt. Jim Gibson said yesterday. "There is some indication of prior contact." The teen told officers he was walking near the corner of Yonge and Gould Sts. when 10 men approached. Two of them tried to talk to him and a fight erupted, police said.

Due to the ongoing investigation, police wouldn't reveal exactly what the men were arguing about. When police arrived around 7:45 p.m. they found the teen bleeding heavily from wounds to his neck, body and head. They still aren't sure what he was stabbed with.

This is the third violent incident in recent memory along the stretch of Yonge St. between Elm and Gould Sts. Just across the street from Friday's stabbing, Creba was shot on Dec. 26, 2005.

A year later, in front of the now defunct Sam the Record Man store, a gunman wounded a man. Yesterday police released sparse descriptions of the swarming crowd.

The first suspect is described as white, 5-foot-6 to 5-foot-8 with a medium build. The second is described only as Asian. There is no description for the remaining eight men.