Hate-motivated stabbing at Toronto waterfront; Hamilton man charged after self-inflicted shooting

Toronto Police seek a suspect who made anti-Sikh slurs and stabbed a victim at Queens Quay W. In Hamilton, a man who shot himself in the leg has been charged with firearm offences.

Toronto waterfront stabbing suspect sought after alleged hate-motivated attack

Toronto Police are seeking public help to identify a man wanted in connection with an alleged hate-motivated assault near Queens Quay W. and Lower Spadina Ave. that left one person injured on Saturday, the Toronto Sun Crime reports.

According to police, the suspect approached the victim and a witness without provocation, made "anti-Sikh utterances and racial slurs," and then stabbed the victim in the leg. The victim sustained non-life-threatening injuries.

Police have released an image of the suspect, described as a male approximately 5-foot-6 with black hair. At the time of the incident, he was wearing a navy-blue, short-sleeved NFL "Sunday Ticket" jersey with white stripes running from the neck down to each armpit, blue jeans with a dark grease mark on the left calf, and grey and black New Balance running shoes.

Investigators are treating the case as a suspected hate-motivated offence. Anyone with information is asked to contact police at 416-808-3505.

Etobicoke clothing store arson under investigation

Toronto Police are also working to identify two suspects in an arson at a clothing establishment in the Lake Shore Blvd. W. and Albert Ave. area, which occurred on Monday, Aug. 3 at approximately 3:47 a.m.

Police said the two suspects smashed the store's glass windows, poured accelerant inside, and set it alight before fleeing in a vehicle described as a silver or grey metallic Honda Civic sedan, believed to be a 2022–2026 model.

Suspect No. 1 is described as having a medium build, wearing a dark hooded sweatshirt with the hood down, a dark balaclava, dark pants and dark athletic-style shoes with light-coloured soles. Suspect No. 2 is also described as a male with a medium build, wearing a dark hooded jacket with the hood up, a black surgical-style face mask, a white undershirt, dark pants and dark footwear.

Images and video footage of both suspects have been released. Anyone with information can contact police at 416-808-2200, or Crime Stoppers anonymously at 416-222-TIPS (8477) or 222tips.com.

Hamilton man charged after shooting himself in the leg

Hamilton Police have charged a man with firearm-related offences after he arrived at a local hospital on Sunday morning, shortly before 3 a.m., with a non-life-threatening gunshot wound to his leg.

Investigators determined that the man had shot himself and had previously been at Venu Bar, located at 627 King Street E. in Hamilton.

Anyone with information is asked to contact the Hamilton Police Shooting Response Team at 905-546-4883 or by email at [email protected]. Anonymous tips can be submitted to Crime Stoppers at 1-800-222-8477 or at crimestoppershamilton.com.

Toronto micro-mobility crackdown results in hundreds of tickets

Toronto Police issued 324 tickets and warnings to micro-mobility device riders during a two-week safety campaign that ran from Aug. 10 to Aug. 24.

Officers focused on educating riders of e-bikes and e-scooters about unsafe behaviours, including illegal sidewalk riding, travelling the wrong way in cycle paths, illegal e-moped use in cycle tracks, and parking in bike lanes. An additional 1,277 parking tickets were issued to vehicles found blocking bike lanes.

Police reiterated that e-scooter use is not permitted in any public space within the City of Toronto.

Toronto man charged in voyeurism case involving child at Kew Gardens

A 36-year-old Toronto man has been arrested and charged following a voyeurism investigation at Kew Gardens in the Queen St. E. and Lee Ave. area.

On Tuesday, Aug. 25, an 11-year-old girl entered a washroom at the park. Police allege that a male suspect, already inside the facility, moved into a bathroom stall and photographed the girl through gaps in the stall partition. The child sought help, and the suspect fled before officers arrived.

Police have since charged Hans Martins-Gonzalez with secretly observing or recording a person in a place where privacy is reasonably expected.

Anyone with information is asked to contact police at 416-808-5500, or Crime Stoppers anonymously at 416-222-TIPS (8477) or 222tips.com.

Source: Toronto Sun Crime