The man was discovered stabbed on Sunday shortly after 12am, following a report of an assault within the space of York Street and University Avenue.
The man was taken to a close-by hospital the place he later died, police stated.
Authorities didn’t launch the person’s identify pending household notification.
The eight women had been discovered shortly after the assault and brought into custody.
They have now been charged with second-degree homicide, Detective Sgt Terry Browne of the Toronto Police Service Homicide Unit stated throughout a news convention on Tuesday.
Three of the women are 13, three are 14, and two of them are 16, based on a news launch from the Toronto Police Service.
The group of youngsters “met each other through social media”.
“They come from varying parts of the city,” Browne stated Tuesday.
“We don’t know how or why they met on that evening and why that destination was downtown Toronto,” Browne stated, including police consider the group could have been concerned in an “altercation” earlier within the night earlier than the stabbing.
Browne stated he wouldn’t name the group of women a “gang” however famous they participated in a conduct often called “swarming,” wherein a number of attackers goal a sufferer concurrently.
Various weapons had been additionally discovered with the women and three of the women have had “prior contact” with police, Browne stated.
