{"id":329587,"date":"2025-12-07T04:16:06","date_gmt":"2025-12-07T04:16:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/329587\/"},"modified":"2025-12-07T04:16:06","modified_gmt":"2025-12-07T04:16:06","slug":"ttc-employee-and-customer-charged","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/329587\/","title":{"rendered":"TTC employee and customer charged"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A TTC employee is facing five charges in an alleged customer stabbing at a subway station. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">A TTC employee and a customer have been charged after they allegedly stabbed each other <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cp24.com\/local\/toronto\/2025\/11\/26\/staff-member-stabbed-at-dundas-subway-station-ttc-ceo\/\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.cp24.com\/local\/toronto\/2025\/11\/26\/staff-member-stabbed-at-dundas-subway-station-ttc-ceo\/\">at a downtown subway station last week.<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Toronto police said a call came in for a stabbing at TMU Station, formerly named Dundas Station, on the afternoon of Nov. 26.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Police initially told reporters that only a TTC employee was stabbed and that a male was subsequently arrested.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" data-chromatic=\"ignore\" alt=\"\" class=\"c-image\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/I4MP7IBHUJC3JODHBVIUXH3JIQ.png\"  width=\"800\" height=\"450\"\/>TTC stabbing Toronto police are on the scene of a stabbing at Dundas Station downtown on Wednesday, Nov. 26, 205. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">However, in a news release on Saturday, investigators provided more details about what allegedly transpired.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">They said it began with a verbal altercation between a female TTC employee and a male customer near the fare wickets inside the station.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">The two assaulted each other, and a TTC employee allegedly ended up stabbing the customer with a knife.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">They were then separated, but police allege the customer returned and stabbed the TTC employee with a knife.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Both were later taken to the hospital with non-life-threatening injuries. Police said the two were not known to each other.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">The customer, who police identified as 42-year-old Gregory Benard, was arrested that same day and charged with three counts of assault and one count each of carrying a concealed weapon, possession of a weapon for a dangerous purpose, assault with a weapon and aggravated assault.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">The TTC employee, identified as 40-year-old Rushell Tucker, was arrested on Friday as a result of the investigation.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">She has been charged with carrying a concealed weapon, possession of a weapon for a dangerous purpose, assault with a weapon and aggravated assault and obstructing police.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">In a statement, the TTC said it was aware of the charges but won\u2019t comment further as the matter is now before the courts.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A TTC employee is facing five charges in an alleged customer stabbing at a subway station. A TTC&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":329130,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[712,49,48,44],"class_list":{"0":"post-329587","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-canada","8":"tag-apple-news","9":"tag-ca","10":"tag-canada","11":"tag-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/329587","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=329587"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/329587\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/329130"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=329587"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=329587"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=329587"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}