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Canadian police arrested eight teenage girls who know each other through social media for allegedly “swarming” a homeless man on the streets of Toronto and brutally stabbing him to death.
Three 13-year-old girls, three 14-year-old girls, and two 16-year-old girls have each been charged with second-degree murder in the deadly stabbing of a 59-year-old man living in the homeless shelter system shortly after midnight Sunday, according to an announcement by the Toronto Police Service on Tuesday.
Police withheld the names of the eight minor suspects under Canada’s Youth Criminal Justice Act, which prevents their publication. The name of the victim was initially held pending next of kin notification.
At a press conference Tuesday, Det. Sgt. Terry Browne of the Homicide and Missing Persons Unit declined to describe the group of girls as a gang, saying they carried out a “swarming-type behavior.”
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“From what we gathered so far, is that they met each other through social media. They come from varying parts of the city. That’s to say they’re not from one specific geographic location. We don’t know how or why they met on that evening or why the destination was downtown Toronto,” Browne said. “We don’t know how long they’ve been acquainted together with each other. But I wouldn’t describe them as a gang at this point.”
Toronto Police Service Det. Sgt. Terry Browne, of the Homicide and Missing Persons Unit, announces that eight teen girls are charged with murder.
(Toronto Police Services)
“What they are alleged to have occurred that evening would be consistent with what we would traditionally call a swarming or a swarming-type behavior,” he added.
A Toronto resident, the victim had only been living in the shelter system since late fall of this year.
This file image shows Toronto Police investigate a double stabbing at the…
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