{"id":399127,"date":"2026-01-09T21:38:10","date_gmt":"2026-01-09T21:38:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/399127\/"},"modified":"2026-01-09T21:38:10","modified_gmt":"2026-01-09T21:38:10","slug":"toronto-police-make-arrest-in-random-stabbing-attacks-chief","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/399127\/","title":{"rendered":"Toronto police make arrest in random stabbing attacks: chief"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"c-paragraph\">A suspect has been arrested in connection with a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ctvnews.ca\/toronto\/article\/suspect-sought-in-2-unprovoked-stabbings-in-torontos-west-end-police\/\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.ctvnews.ca\/toronto\/article\/suspect-sought-in-2-unprovoked-stabbings-in-torontos-west-end-police\/\">pair of stabbings in Toronto\u2019s west end <\/a>which police say were unprovoked.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.tps.ca\/media-centre\/news-releases\/64988\/\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.tps.ca\/media-centre\/news-releases\/64988\/\">In a news release<\/a>, police confirmed that 18-year-old Toronto resident Noah Christopher Chapman was apprehended by officers in Hamilton on Friday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">He was previously identified as a suspect in the Wednesday afternoon attacks, which occurred in and around Dufferin Station. Emergency crews were called to the area shortly after 4:30 p.m. that day for reports of a stabbing. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Investigators said that, in the first attack, the victim was in the underground mezzanine level of Dufferin subway station when they were approached by the suspect from behind and stabbed.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Moments later, on Bloor Street near Pauline Avenue, the suspect approached another victim from behind and stabbed them in the leg.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Video of the second incident was obtained by CTV News Toronto. In it, the victim can be seen grabbing his leg as the suspect runs off.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Both victims were transported to hospital with non-life-threatening injuries. Police said neither of them knew Chapman.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">It\u2019s not immediately clear what Chapman was doing in Hamilton at the time of his arrest. Police have not said what may have motivated the attacks.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" data-chromatic=\"ignore\" alt=\"\" class=\"c-image\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/MDTAY4MSXVGQVOIRKD6HXJAGOM.png\"  width=\"800\" height=\"448\"\/>dufferin stabbing Toronto police are investigating after two people were stabbed at Dufferin Station on Jan. 7, 2026. (Jacob Estrin) <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">An employee of a nearby store said she heard people screaming following the second stabbing.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">\u201cIt\u2019s not like before,\u201d the woman, who asked not to be identified, said. \u201cNow, there is no safety, honestly.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Some people who live in the area said the seemingly random incidents have left them feeling on edge.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">\u201cWhy would somebody just stab someone, like minding their own business. It\u2019s scary,\u201d said a man near the scene on Thursday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">\u201cWe always have to watch our backs, you know, after an incident like that.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">With files from Mike Walker<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A suspect has been arrested in connection with a pair of stabbings in Toronto\u2019s west end which police&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":399128,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[712,43,44,41,39,42,40],"class_list":{"0":"post-399127","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-headlines","8":"tag-apple-news","9":"tag-headlines","10":"tag-news","11":"tag-top-news","12":"tag-top-stories","13":"tag-topnews","14":"tag-topstories"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/399127","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=399127"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/399127\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/399128"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=399127"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=399127"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=399127"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}