Toronto police released new video Friday afternoon of the man suspected to have fired multiple gunshots on a bustling TTC subway platform the day before.
The surveillance videos show the suspect walking across the Downsview subway station ticket booth area at 10:12 a.m. Thursday and coming up the escalator at Osgoode station just seconds after the brazen shooting occurred.
Police are also downloading video that shows the suspect on a Jane Street bus prior to the incident, Toronto Police Division 23 Acting Superintendent Mario Di Tommaso told ctvtoronto.ca on Friday.
Police hope better images of the suspect will help the public identify him, Di Tommaso said, adding he urges the suspect to turn himself in.
"We are very confident that we will be making an arrest," Di Tommaso said.
Meanwhile the suspect's apparent target has been released from hospital on Friday.
The 19-year-old gunshot victim, who was known to police, was treated for bullets wounds to the stomach and thigh after he was shot at around 10:45 a.m. Thursday. The victim is being cared for at home by his family and is speaking to police.
The victim knows the suspect by sight, though not by name, Di Tommaso said.
Though Toronto police said they've received several calls regarding the suspect, the have not been able to positively identify him.
He is described as a black male, between 20 and 27 years of age. Between 6' and 6'2" in height with a medium build, the suspected subway shooter was wearing a Toronto Blue Jays cap along with black, fur-lined parka, black pants and black Nike Air Jordan running shoes.
The head of the Toronto Transit Commission board says violent incidents are "incredibly rare" within Toronto's public transit system.
TTC chair Adam Giambrone said Friday that the recent mid-morning shooting at Osgoode station may have left subway riders shaken, but they have little reason to be concerned about their general safety while riding public transit.
"Obviously when something like this happens, it's very disconcerting and it causes us to reflect on security," he told CTV's Canada AM.
"Over the last couple years, the Toronto Transit Commission has put in over 10,000 cameras across the system, we've hired more special constables and we've worked, most importantly, with Toronto police to beef up the amount of security on the system."
"These incidents are incredibly rare and of course we know crime in Toronto, as it is across the country, continues to decline and that's true of incidents on the TTC," Giambrone added.
Police consider the suspect to be armed and dangerous and are urging the public not to approach him.
Instead, anyone with information for police should contact investigators at 416-808-5200, or to call Crime Stoppers at 416-222-8477, or 9-1-1.
With a report from CTV Toronto's Jim Junkin
