Man wanted after pedestrians struck at Toronto university arrested in alleged road-rage incident
Ryan Petroff, 23, is facing two dozen charges including attempted murder
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A 23-year-old Toronto man charged following a road-rage incident on Thursday is facing two dozen charges including attempted murder for his alleged role in an incident last month on the campus of Toronto Metropolitan University.
On the afternoon of April 15, Toronto Police responded to the downtown campus near Gerrard and Yonge Sts. where five people were injured after a vehicle struck three victims sitting on a bench along the pedestrian-only Nelson Mandela Walk.
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Cops said at the time that they believed the incident might have been intentional.
The driver fled the area in the vehicle. The suspect was later identified by police as Ryan Petroff.
Police said that two of the injured victims didn’t require medical treatment while two others were transported to hospital with serious but non-life-threatening injuries. The fifth victim, who suffered non-life-threatening injuries, was identified in the days following the incident.
None of the injured were students or staff at the school.
On Thursday, police said Petroff was stopped and investigated by officers following an alleged road-rage incident in the Morningside Ave.-Hwy. 401 area. He was subsequently arrested on numerous outstanding warrants.
Petroff was charged with attempted murder, sexual assault with a weapon, assault choke, two counts of assault causing bodily harm, three counts of assault with a weapon, utter threats to cause death, mischief under $5,000, three counts of dangerous conveyance of a motor vehicle causing bodily harm, possession of property obtained by crime under $5,000, two counts of possession of property obtained by crime over $5,000, four counts of fail to comply with probation, three counts of leave accident scene/bodily harm, and operation while prohibited.
Police did not release information on the alleged sexual assault.
Petroff was scheduled to appear in Toronto court on Friday.
Anyone with information is asked to call police at 416-808-5100, or contact Crime Stoppers anonymously at 416-222-TIPS (8477), or at 222tips.com.
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