A Chinese national who admitted having made a stab attack not caused against a TTC The metro car in December 2022 sought to take revenge on Canadians because a Canadian doctor had blinded him.
Friday, the frightening confession was read in a courthouse in downtown Toronto as part of a contained declaration of the facts (ASF) at the hearing for determining the sentence for NEG Jia Jin, 55.
Jin pleaded guilty in February to the first degree of 31 years Vanessa KurpvieWska And the attempted murder Sullakshana Srijeyarayah, 37, 37 years old, two foreigners in Jin who were passengers on a metro train approaching High Park station at Runnymede station on December 8, 2022.
“I stabbed two people today. They are innocent. My eyes have been blinded and I am innocent … I was injured by you Canadians and now I feel balanced inside,” Jin told a Mandarin police officer after his arrest.
“I had no bad blood with you Canadians, but he blinded my eyes, and I had to take revenge.”
Jin told investigators that at the start, he wanted to kill people on a BUS TTC but could not see it clearly; It was not until later that he was in the metro where he could see more clearly that he decided to kill people.
The two women were seated on the train in the direction is when they were suddenly attacked by Jin. When Jin went on the metro car, the court learned that he was sitting next to a woman with a child in a stroller.
The victim’s parents rushed to Jin before the court
About 10 minutes after the start of Friday’s hearing, while the assistant prosecutor of the crown, Bev Richards, discussed the plan of the day with the judge, Kurpiewska’s mother, who was sitting in the courtyard, suddenly got up and headed for the box of the prisoner where Jin was seated.
She sobbed and said a few words in polishing before being retained by legal officers who escorted her outside the courtroom.
About 40 minutes after the first explosion, while Kurpeiewska’s family left the courtroom to take a break, Kurpiewska’s father rushed to Jin who was sitting on his chest looking towards the ground.
He shouted: “Hey, wake up!” Before the father left the courtroom. The judge of the Superior Court, Joan Barrett, then warned the observers that they would be invited to leave if they disturbed the courtroom.
Richards said to the courtyard on attacks, Jin left the townhouse where he lived with his daughter and his ex-wife near Huntingwood Drive and Midland Avenue around 11 a.m.
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He was captured during video surveillance, which followed him to get on a bus TTC traveling south on Midland avenue around 11:10 am
“During the bus journey that followed, it can be seen by looking at passengers,” said Richards. Read ASF.
Jin went to Kennedy’s station at Royal York station where he was captured during video surveillance just 90 minutes before following a blonde woman “with a striking resemblance to the deceased, Vanessa Kurpewska,” said Richards.
The ASF Jin states followed the blonde woman and seemed to look at her at all times. Video surveillance captured the woman trying to escape Jin’s view of the view, and when the metro train arrived on the platform, he ran after her and followed her on the train.
“He blocks his arm at the door of the metro car, managing to prevent them from closing,” said Richards, who added that Jin managed to get on the same metro car.
The woman managed to run from the metro car safe before Jin could follow her.
The court hears how the attack went
The court heard Jin Fire on the Bloor-Danforth line during the next hour before finally getting on the train in the direction is at Islington station and to be on the same metro car as Kurpeiewska and Srijeyarayah.
Video surveillance on the train captured Jin watching Kurpeiewska, who was seated in a blue priority seat not far from Sriyerayan, who was sitting in the back of the car. A good Samaritan named Denys Matvyev was also on the metro car.
Just after the train withdrew from the Runnymede station, Jin was captured on video by taking two knives of his backpack and stabbing Kurpeiewska, first using a knife in his right hand, then with a larger knife in his left hand.
Richards said Kurpeiewska seemed to decide while trying to defend himself. After stabbing his first victim seven times, Richards said that Jin was turning to Srijeyarajah, who was stuck and seated the rear of the metro car alone.
Richards told the court of the Jin court, swinging several times to Srijeyarajah when she had her right arm extended to repel him. After the fifth swing, Matvyev can be seen in the seat at the back of the car where he tried to kick Jin, who responded, swinging towards him.
The good Samaritan was finally able to launch a knife with Jin’s hand, allowing Srijeyarayah to catch him. Jin continues to swing in the second victim and stabs her in the upper chest.
Finally, Matvyey kicked Jin, forcing the accused effectively in the corner of the metro car and helped Srijeyarayah to climb on the security seats.
“All have totaled, Mr. Jin swung and missed, and stabbed a second victim about twenty-seven times,” said Richards.
Matyveyev continued to keep Jin at a distance while an unidentified second man, using a child’s stroller, was able to help Matyveyev from Jin from leaving the train. While the train arrived at High Park Station, he made an emergency stop.
After the attack, Jin was captured during video surveillance standing at the back of the metro car, reaching the pocket of his jacket, taking out a bottle of yogurt and drinking a drink.
Kurpeiewska was swept away by the TTC staff by TTC staff and, as paramedical paramedics were trying to treat it on the platform, she became absent vital signs. She died later in the hospital. His cause of death was breast injuries.
Srjeyarayah was stabbed in the abdomen, left arm, twice in his right hand and twice in his left leg. A tendon was also cut into his finger on his right hand which required plastic surgery.
On July 18, 2023, Jin told doctors that he was not worried about his trial.
“He also said he was happy to be in prison because he gets food, shelter and can see doctors for his vision loss,” said Richards.
Last May, Jin told the doctors that he had changed and had no thought to die or abandon life.
“He was full of hope and did not care if he had a perpetuity imprisonment,” added Richards.
Kurpiewska’s sister read an impact declaration on the victim on behalf of the family Friday
“The pure act of evil that took Vanessa will haunt our family forever,” said Kamila Kurpiewska.
“This insane act has changed our lives forever and there is not a day when we do not think of what Vanessa endured in her last moments. The nightmares have never stopped.”
Another declaration of impact on the victim was read by the deputy prosecutor of the crown Mihael Cole de la femme that Jin followed at High Park Station.
“I always wake up at night with nightmares on the incident. I see the deadly eyes. The mortal look haunts me for the rest of my life, ”she wrote.
A forensic psychiatrist who assessed Jin found his actions at the time of the attacks was based on reality and motivated by rage, anger and revenge
“He targeted people he considered vulnerable”, and found that his behavior was organized and deliberate, decided the psychiatrist.
The judge of the Superior Court, Joan Barrett, reserved his decision until next month.
The first degree murder is a compulsory penalty with a period of ineligibility for the 25 -year -old parole. Barrett must always decide a sentence for the attempted condemnation for murder which will be purged simultaneously. After completing his sentence, Jin, 55, will face an expulsion order, because the court learned that he had come illegally to Canada in 2010 and has no status.