The man who stabbed a 16-year-old stranger to death at a Toronto subway station almost two years ago in an unprovoked attack is a violent and callous killer, the Crown argued at his sentencing hearing.
Jordan O’Brien-Tobin, from Toronto, has already pleaded guilty to the second-degree murder of 16-year-old Gabriel Magalhaes at Keele Subway Station.
On Thursday, assistant Crown attorney Karen Simone told Superior Court Justice Jane Kelly that O’Brien-Tobin, now 24, posed an ongoing risk to public safety after the random stabbing.
“It had a chilling effect on the public,” she said, recounting the attack that shocked the city at a period of increased violence on the TTC.
“The impact was immense, your honour. People who use public transit in our city were left feeling, ‘Am I next?’ It’s how people felt after this happened.”
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At the end of the hearing, O’Brien-Tobin himself also stood up and addressed the family of the …