Police are trying to identify a man they say hurled anti-Muslim comments and threats at an 11-year-old boy in Oshawa on Thursday.
Investigators say the student, who is Muslim, was standing in the school yard at Woodcrest Public School shortly before 10:30 a.m.
The child told police and school officials that a man approached the child and shouted anti-Muslim comments and threats.
Police are searching for a suspect they describe as a man who in his 20s or 30s and approximately six-foot. He was last seen wearing a black sweater, black pants and a ski-mask that concealed his identity.
Similar incidents reported in Durham region
Since January, Durham Regional Police Const. George Tudos say they’ve received reports of six hate-motivated crimes.
One of these incidents happened Friday at around 1:40 p.m. in Ajax in the area of Harwood Avenue and Kingston Road East. A CTV News Toronto viewer said she reported the racial slur written on a bench at a bus stop to Durham Region Transit. Authorities with the transit agency said they would look into it.
As well, police were called after swastikas were reportedly found inside two buses in Oshawa and one in Ajax.
Anyone with new information is asked to call police at 1-888-579-1520, ext. 2732.
