Man who pushed senior woman over as he ran up Yonge Street guilty of manslaughter – Toronto [Video]

The man accused of pushing an 89-year-old woman from behind on Yonge Street, leading to her sudden death, at the start of last year has been found guilty of manslaughter.

Ryan Cunneen, from Toronto, pushed Xiaoxia Wang, 89, while she was walking in the downtown core on Jan. 20, 2023.

After a judge-alone trial in June, Superior Court Justice Rita-Jean Maxwell told a Toronto courtroom on Tuesday that the Crown had proven beyond a reasonable doubt that the offence was not an accident, but rather an assault.

Maxwell found Cunneen, who was running at top speed, deliberately put his two hands on Wang’s upper back and pushed her, causing her to fall to the ground where her face hit the pavement with significant force to cause her head to snap backyards.

The post-mortem found the cause of death to be hyperextension neck trauma due to blue force facial trauma causing …