Police are searching for a man that officers say put a stranger in a chokehold on a Toronto bus.
Toronto police said the incident occurred on Friday around 7:40 a.m. on a bus in the Kennedy Road and Sheppard Avenue East area of the city.
According to police, a passenger was standing on an eastbound Toronto bus near the front door when a stranger attacked him and put him in a chokehold “without provocation.”
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The incident reportedly happened as the bus was coming to a stop on Kennedy Road.
Toronto police said the suspect was aged between 30 and 40 and had a black beard. He wore a white tank top, khaki shorts and black shoes.
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