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Witness recounts deadly ‘icepick’ attack on TTC subway

The second stabbing victim was treated in hospital and released

Vanessa Kurpiewska, 31, of Toronto, was fatally stabbed at High Park Station on Thursday, Dec. 8, 2022.
Vanessa Kurpiewska, 31, of Toronto, was fatally stabbed at High Park Station on Thursday, Dec. 8, 2022. Photo by Handout /Toronto Police

Toronto Police have charged a man with first-degree murder in the fatal stabbing of a stranger on a TTC train.

Police allege the 52-year-old man stabbed two women on a subway train on Thursday afternoon at High Park Station.

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One of the women — identified by police as 31-year-old Vanessa Kurpiewska — died in hospital while the other, a 37-year-old, has since been released.

Police say the man and the women did not know each other.

Officers found the man at the station around 2 p.m. and arrested him.

Neng Jia Jin, 52, of Toronto, is charged with first-degree murder and attempted murder. He is to appear in Old City Hall court Friday morning.

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