It happened around 11:15 am Police say the victim, believed to be in her 60s, was walking through the transit station when she was approached by the suspect. It is alleged that the suspect then unprovoked punched the woman in the face, knocking her unconscious. The victim was revived at the scene, but was later taken to the hospital with serious but non-life-threatening injuries, paramedics say. The suspect was last seen at the station and it is unclear if he boarded a bus or subway. He is described as black in his 30s. He was wearing a black shirt, black pants, a black toque and a white scarf. The incident comes after another “random attack” at Kipling station last month, in which a woman was allegedly set on fire. That woman was rushed to hospital with second and third degree burns, but succumbed to her injuries earlier this week. A suspect is facing multiple charges in connection with this incident. There have also been a number of other violent incidents on the TTC in recent months, including one that saw a woman pushed onto the tracks at Bloor-Yonge Station in April. The victim in this incident is suing the TTC for $1 million. “I know on days like today it’s a little hollow to say the TTC is safe, but it is. By any measure the TTC is a safe system. We move hundreds of millions of people every year, the majority of them without incident, but on days like today and days like we’ve seen recently, there’s an understandable nervousness that people have about riding the TTC,” spokesman Stuart Green told CP24 this afternoon. Thursday. “That’s why it’s our duty to do everything we can to make the TTC even safer and give people the reassurance that we have staff available for them, we have cameras available, we have all these things that are deterrents but can also they react in case of random attack”. Green said TTC CEO Rick Leary spoke with Police Chief James Ramer after the latest incident about ways security could be improved at Kipling Station. He said additional TTC special constables will also be deployed at Kipling Station. “Unfortunately with random attacks it is by definition just that. They are things that are very difficult to defend against and plan for, but we can do some things and we have additional staff that we can deploy at Kippling,” he said.
