The man accused of pushing a passenger to his death at the Yonge/Bloor station is scheduled to appear in College Park court Tuesday morning.The suspect, John Reszetnik, 57, was known to police but Det.-Sgt Gary Giroux wouldn’t elaborate to reporters outside court.Asked if mental health is an issue, Giroux said it’s “always a factor” in these kinds of seemingly random crimes.READ MORE:Man killed after he was pushed off platform at Yonge/Bloor station Police said the victim was on the eastbound platform of Yonge station at about 10:15 a.m. Monday when he was pushed onto the tracks as the train entered the station.Police still haven’t been able to identify the victim. He’s described as an Asian man with white hair, wearing a white baseball cap, shorts and blue sneakers.There were about 50 people at the station at the time, so it wasn’t very busy, a TTC official said.Police said there were passengers who left the scene before investigators could arrive at Yonge/Bloor station. Police are requesting anyone who saw this incident to call homicide Det. Rob North at 416-808-7400. The last fatal subway pushing incident was in 1997. Charlene Minkowski, a 23-year-old law clerk, was waiting for a train at Dundas subway station when she was pushed by Herbert Cheong, a man with a history of mental illness.Cheong was convicted of second-degree murder after court heard he developed a plan to kill someone. A Crown attorney at the time called it “a form of urban terrorism . . . totally random.”In 2009, three boys were pushed into the path of a train at Dufferin station. Two of the boys fell to the tracks while the third maintained his balance. Of the boys who fell, one suffered minor injuries and the other had two toes amputated.The man who pushed them, Adenir De Oliveira, was found not criminally responsible because of a mental disorder.Police are urging witnesses having difficulty with they saw to call Victim Services Toronto& ...
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