Suspect in Toronto stabbing wanted on Canada-wide warrant
Last Updated: Thursday, April 26, 2007 | 10:34 AM ET
CBC News
A Canada-wide arrest warrant has been issued for a 32-year-old man after another man was stabbed to death while attending a friend's birthday party at a restaurant in Toronto's Danforth neighbourhood.
Jordan Ormonde, 24, died Monday in hospital after he was stabbed Sunday at the Kokkino Restaurant and Lounge at 414 Danforth Avenue.
Arber Babbani Krasniqi is wanted on a Canada-wide warrant.
(Toronto Police Service) Arber Babbani Krasniqi is wanted on a charge of murder, police said at a news conference Wednesday.
Krasniqi is considered extremely dangerous and is known in the Danforth and east-Toronto area, police said.
They are also seeking another man, who was wearing a green shirt with Albania written across the front when he fled with the suspect.
Ormonde was stabbed in the neck after a brief fight. Police said it was a random assault and they don't believe the two knew each other.
Ormonde's death marked the city's 20th homicide and seventh stabbing death in 2007.
In 2006, there had been five stabbing deaths by the same point in the year.
Toronto police Det. John Biggerstaff said many people forget how common knives are because gun crimes tend to get more attention.
"We seem to think and believe that most murders are committed by firearms," Biggerstaff said.
A Conservative MP from eastern Ontario recently introduced a bill calling for mandatory sentences for crimes committed with a knife similar to those already in place for gun crime.
"A lot of these killings come out of young people carrying a small, concealed knife in their pocket and they're getting into confrontations and out comes the knife and often someone ends up dead," Gord Brown, who represents the Leeds-Grenville riding, said on Wednesday.
"So part of the mandatory prison sentence is to make people think twice before they toss that knife in their pocket."
The bill is expected to be debated in the fall.
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