Toronto police say woman severely hurt in 2018 van attack has died of her injuries
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This article was published 11/11/2021 (1763 days ago), so information in it may no longer be current.
TORONTO – Police say a woman who was severely hurt in the 2018 Toronto van attack has died of her injuries in hospital.
Toronto police say in a release that Amaresh Tesfamariam, who was 65, died on Oct. 28.
She had been in hospital since April 23, 2018, after Alek Minassian drove a rental van down the sidewalk of Yonge Street killing 10 people and injuring another 16.
Minassian was convicted in March of 10 counts of first-degree murder and 16 counts of attempted murder but has not been sentenced.
Toronto police say Tesfamariam’s death is now considered a homicide but Minassian will not face another murder charge.
Const. David Hopkinson, a police spokesman, said the charge can’t be upgraded to first-degree murder because too much time has elapsed since she was injured.
“It is my understanding that a new charge will not be laid,” Hopkinson said. “But the judge will consider that there is a new victim in sentencing.”
This report by The Canadian Press was first published Nov. 11, 2021
Note to readers: This is a corrected story. Police updated the spelling of the woman’s last name that was incorrect in the news release.