SIU is investigating after 3 teenagers were arrested for allegedly cutting a woman’s face at Spadina train station

Ontario Police Supervision is investigating after Toronto police arrested and charged three teenagers in connection with a woman who was slashed in the face at the Spadina subway station on Sunday.

One of the teenagers, a 16-year-old boy, suffered serious injuries after his arrest on Monday night, according to the Special Investigations Unit.

In a press release, Toronto Police said the teenagers were arrested Monday after police were called to a “suspicious incident” in the Long Branch Avenue and Lake Promenade area.

Police said an officer was “examining a boy in the stairwell of an apartment building” when the accused attempted to run and “alarmed another boy and girl.”

Investigators claim one of the boys then “swinged a machete at the officers” before all three were arrested.

Police say the teenagers – a 15-year-old boy, a 16-year-old boy and a 15-year-old girl – were allegedly the trio who got into an altercation with a woman at Spadina train station on Sunday night.

In that case, investigators said a man spat in a woman’s face and repeatedly poked her before pulling a knife and slashing her open, causing facial injuries.

After that, all three suspects ran away, police said.

None of the young people can be named under the Juvenile Criminal Law Act.

All three teenagers face multiple charges including assault with a gun. They were due to appear in court on Tuesday morning.

“Boy complained of pain,” says SIU

According to the SIU, officers were called to the Long Branch Avenue and Lake Promenade area at 7:40 p.m. for a disturbance. Officers found one of the youths and when they tried to arrest him, the boy and another youth beat him with a machete, an officer said in the press release.

“There was a fight and the teenagers fled,” the SIU said.

SIU said two youths were later found near Park Boulevard in Etobicoke and taken into custody overnight.

“This morning the boy complained of pain. He was taken to the hospital and diagnosed with serious injuries,” the SIU said in the release.

The SIU is an independent government agency investigating police conduct that may have resulted in death, serious injury, sexual assault, and the firing of a firearm at an individual.

Late last month, the Toronto Police Department announced that more than 80 officers would be deployed daily to the city’s transit system in response to a series of high-profile, violent attacks on the TTC.