

Paul Johnston and Chris Herhalt, CP24.com





A 60-year-old woman wanted in connection with a stabbing in Rosedale Thursday morning is now in police custody, sources have confirmed to CP24.

The arrest comes after police officers were called to the Town Inn Suites on Church Street, at Charles Street, for an unknown trouble call sometime around noon.

At the scene, officers found a woman in crisis on a balcony.

She was ultimately arrested after officers from the Emergency Task Force rappelled down from the building’s roof at around 3:30 p.m.

“She was successfully taken out of the building, and is in fine condition,” Toronto police Const. Jenifferjit Sidhu said at the scene.

The arrest comes hours after police were called to a building located in the Rosedale Valley Boulevard and Park Road area at around 7:30 a.m.

At the scene, officers located a man who had been stabbed several times.

According to police, the 67-year-old victim was stabbed by a woman armed with a large kitchen knife.

The victim was transported to a trauma centre in life-threatening condition with stab wounds to his torso, paramedics said.

The suspect, earlier identified by investigators as Ellis Kirkland, is a prominent consultant in the fields of architecture and infrastructure development. Federal government records indicate she is the owner of Kirkland Capital Corporation.

She is the founder and chair of the NATO Paxbuild Economic Platform and once served as the Ontario Architecture Association’s first female president.

Anyone with information is asked to contact police at 416-808-5300, or Crime Stoppers at 416-222-8477 (TIPS).