A 12-year-old boy and a 20-year-old man have been charged in connection with an attack involving a hammer that led to the death of a homeless man, as well as a string of violent robberies in downtown Toronto late last month.
A 62-year-old man was sleeping on a bench in the Queen Street West and Bay Street area on Aug. 31, just after 6 a.m., when two suspects approached him and attacked him with a weapon, Toronto Police Det.-Sgt. Stacey McCabe told reporters during a Sept. 15 press conference.
“Unprovoked, they began violently beating this male,” McCabe said, noting that one of the suspects was allegedly “armed with a hammer.”…