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Police search for 6 men who viciously beat teenager into coma

TORONTO – Police released security footage Tuesday in hopes it might aid their search for six men believed to have beaten a teen boy into a coma.

Police say the 17-year-old victim got out of a taxi on York St. just south of Queen St. on August 3 at approximately 1:30 a.m. when he was viciously attacked by six men.

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Police say the suspects began punching, kicking and stomping on the boy’s head.

He was taken to hospital and eventually fell into a coma.

The men fled and split up with three of them last seen going northbound in a taxi on University Ave.

Police suggest all six suspects are between the ages of 18 and 25 years old.

Police are asking anyone with information to call police at 416-808-5200 or Crime Stoppers anonymously at 416-222-8477.

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