Globe & Mail // Charges laid in assaults on mentally ill in Toronto's Parkdale neighbourhood
"...Relief swept through west Toronto’s Parkdale neighbourhood Tuesday after a local man was arrested in connection with a string of recent beating attacks – one fatal – targeting people with mental illnesses.
“I never felt unsafe in Parkdale, but during this I did,” said Kristen Murray, 31, a lifelong resident who resides close to where the assaults took place.
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Ricardo Morrison, 32, faces two charges of assault causing bodily harm, involving incidents that took place April 2 and 5, and is viewed as “a person of interest” in the killing of 62-year-old George Wass, police said...."
