Toronto Police are searching for video footage to help identify a suspect in the brazen daylight attack of a woman whose nose was severed. The 76-year-old woman was transferring from the streetcar to the subway at Dundas station on her way home shortly before 2 p.m. on Saturday.Call me an alarmist, but when thugs start cutting bits off old ladies in broad daylight, I'd say you've reached some sort of a tipping point.
As she rode an elevator down from Dundas Square, the man assaulted her, cutting off her nose, then fled.
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Police in Toronto are investigating a pair of robberies from people after they were injured in collisions.Hospitable Hogtown.
Investigators say a man was robbed on Wednesday after being struck by a car in Toronto’s east end (at the Lawrence and Birchmount area). Witnesses say that as the victim lay bleeding on the street waiting for paramedics, a woman walked by and stole the rolls of coins he had been carrying.
Last Saturday, a cyclist was struck by a car (at Oxford Street and Spadina Avenue) and police say a man grabbed her bag and rummaged through it while she was semi-conscious.