This week has seen an incident in which an apparent homeless person was run over by a garbage truck while sleeping in an alley and a case of a man trying to lure a nine-year-old girl into a car. The fatal accident occurred on O’Keefe Lane south of Dundas Street on September 10, 2014, at 6:25 a.m. A garbage truck driver was backing into the lane and did not see the man, 27, who was lying on the pavement and suffered fatal injuries, In another incident, a girl says a man tried to summon her to his parked car on Invergorden Ave as she walked to school. She ignored him but he got out of the vehicle, grabbed her arm and tried to pull towards the car. The girl was able to pull free and escape. In a third incident a man has died as a result of injuries in a fight September 11, 2014 at about 8:30 p.m. Police were called to the Dundas Street West and Mabelle Avenue area for fight involving a group of men. Richard Pepper, 60, of Toronto died of injuries in the fight.
