Man fatally 'slashed in the neck' in downtown Toronto, suspect outstanding
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Police are searching for a male suspect after a man was “slashed in neck” on Sunday morning in downtown Toronto and died.
Police are searching for a male suspect after a man was “slashed in neck” on Sunday morning in downtown Toronto and died.
The incident happened in the Garden District, near Dalhousie and Shuter streets.
Toronto police said that they were called to that area shortly before 10:30 a.m. for reports of a wounding.
At the scene, officers found a man with serious injuries.
Life-saving measures were performed on the victim, who has now been identified by police as 50-year-old Jamie Richardson, of no fixed address, but he was pronounced deceased a short time later at St. Michael’s Hospital.
Richardson is Toronto’s 30th murder victim of the year.
The suspect is described as a man, six feet tall with a large build. He is somewhere between 30 and 40 years old, Det. Sgt. Henri Marsman, of the Homicide and Missing Persons Unit, told reporters at the scene.
