Eight teenage ladies have been charged with second-degree homicide in reference to the dying of 59-year-old man in downtown Toronto.
Police haven’t but launched the person’s identify as a result of they’re notifying his subsequent of kin.
In a news launch on Tuesday, Toronto police mentioned three of the women are 13 years outdated, three are 14 years outdated and two are 16 years outdated. They appeared in court docket at Old City Hall on Sunday.
Police mentioned they had been referred to as to an assault within the York Street and University Area — within the metropolis’s downtown core simply up from Union Station — on Sunday round 12:15 a.m.
The group of youth ladies allegedly assaulted and stabbed the person. He was taken to hospital by paramedics with life-threatening accidents. He died in hospital a short while later, police mentioned.
Police mentioned officers arrested the women close by.
