Stabbing in Toronto office building injures four

TORONTO - A former employee of a human resources company stabbed four current employees at a Toronto office building before being subdued, officials said Wednesday.

Toronto police Det. Dan Darnbrough said employees held the man before police arrived. Darnbrough said two of the four are in serious condition. Police they believe the suspect used a knife to injure a 32-year-old woman and three men between the ages of 35 and 45.

Ceridian, a global payroll and human resources company based in Bloomington, Minnesota said the four are being treated in hospital.

Darnbrough said the attacker, approximately 45-years old, is in custody, following the stabbing on the fifth floor of the building.

Police earlier said they were called at about 9:30 a.m. local time with reports that "a man with scissors" had entered the business and began stabbing people.

Television footage showed police putting a handcuffed man, wearing a bloodied shirt, into a police car. The man turned his head while in the backseat and said hello to a TV camera pointed at him.

Police have not released the suspect's identity. Policed locked down the building's fifth floor to collect evidence.

Steve Paraskevopoulos, who worked on the fourth floor of the building, recalls hearing a commotion coming from above.

"It was kind of a stampede kind of sound," he said. "It was an odd thing, we have thick slab concrete floors. You never hear a thing from somebody above you unless there's construction."

Paraskevopoulos later saw the victims, who were smeared with noticeable traces of blood.

"There was one guy who looked like he took a stab across the head, it was all bandaged up," he said.