A driver who hit four pedestrians on a walkway on Toronto Metropolitan University’s downtown campus on April 15 may have been targeting a specific individual, police say.
The hit-and-run occurred shortly before 2 p.m. on Nelson Mandela Walk, a tree-lined path exclusively for pedestrians located near Yonge Street and Gerrard Street East.
Two people were taken to hospital with non-life threatening injuries, police said. The other two pedestrians were assessed at the scene and released.
Toronto Police Duty Insp. Todd Jocko said investigators believe one of the people on the walkway was known to the driver.
“It’s still early in this investigation, but at this time, it appears that it may have been an intentional targeting of a specific individual on the walkway,” Jocko told reporters during a media scrum several hours after the incident….