Toronto police say a person who needed to be rescued from Lake Ontario has been arrested in reference to the stabbing of a lady. They are saying the suspect jumped into the lake in an try to flee the scene of the assault.
Police say they responded to studies {that a} man had stabbed a lady at about 12:51 p.m. on Sunday at Bellevue Avenue and Faculty Road and located a lady with non-life-threatening accidents. She was transported to hospital.
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The suspect, police mentioned, had fled the scene however was positioned within the Lakeshore Boulevard and Remembrance Drive space the place he tried to evade arrest by leaping into Lake Ontario. Toronto police’s marine unit was deployed to assist rescue the suspect from the lake.
Const. Laurie McCann advised International Information that an officer aiding within the rescue was additionally stabbed by the suspect.
The officer was taken to hospital with non-life-threatening accidents.
Police say the suspect and the lady who was stabbed knew one another.
The investigation is ongoing.
