Toronto police have arrested a man suspected of random attacks on strangers at the Kennedy subway station.
Police thanked the public for their assistance in leading to the arrest of Brandonn Sevilla-Zelaya, a 25-year old Toronto man.
An investigation was launched after reports that a man boarded the Toronto subway at Kennedy Station on Dec. 15 and randomly started attacking passengers. He was described as 5 feet 7 inches tall, with a neck tattoo, wearing light blue jeans, black shoes, and a dark grey hoodie, according to a Dec. 16 news release from the Toronto Police Service.
Brandonn Sevilla-Zelaya, 25, was arrested by police in Toronto on Dec. 17, 2022, wanted in connection with two random attacks of subway passengers. (HANDOUT/Toronto Police Service)
A man fitting that description approached a male passenger at about 10 p.m. and started punching him, unprovoked. At approximately 11 p.m. that same evening, the same “man approached and began attacking a female passenger by shaking her, unprovoked,” the news release said, noting that the man threatened the woman, robbed her of her  headphones, and then fled….