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Man, 24, accused of assaulting commuters, hurling racial slurs at Kennedy TTC station

And, like so many others behind recent unprovoked attacks on the TTC, the accused in the Scarborough subway station incident was on probation

Investigators need help identifying this man who is suspected of terrorizing people at Kennedy TTC station on Friday, March 31, 2023.
Investigators need help identifying this man who is suspected of terrorizing people at Kennedy TTC station on Friday, March 31, 2023. Photo by Handout /Toronto Police

A 24-year-old man now faces charges for allegedly terrorizing commuters at Kennedy TTC station on Friday.

And, like the 22-year-old man accused of stabbing Gabriel Magalhaes, 16, to death at Keele subway station last weekend and so many others behind recent unprovoked attacks on the TTC, the alleged assailant in the Scarborough subway station incident was on probation.

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Toronto Police say officers responded to the incident at Kennedy subway station, near Kennedy Rd. and Eglinton Ave. E., around 10 a.m.

“(A man) with a sharp object in his hand … began chasing several people inside the subway station,” Const. Shannon Whitehead said in a statement released Friday.

She said the man “then started yelling racial slurs to the people he was chasing.”

The assailant ran off before officers arrived at the station.

Investigators have released an image of a suspect in the incident and on Saturday police announced a man had been arrested.

Gary Bosse, of Toronto, is charged with uttering threats, weapons dangerous, assault with a weapon and four counts of failure to comply with a probation.

Anyone with information regarding this incident is urged to call police at 416-808-4100 or Crime Stoppers anonymously at 1-88-222-TIPS (8477).

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