Man Recounts Brampton Street Stabbing

A Brampton, Ont.  media personality who was savagely attacked with a machete and an ax in the driveway of his home has spoken for the first time since he was ambushed.
On the morning of August 4, Joti Singh Mann, a local podcast host and real estate agent, was getting into his parked Jeep when he was approached by a man wielding an axe.
Video taken from the scene shows a suspect swinging the blade at the vehicle after Mann closed the car door.
“I was sitting in my car and when I looked to the side, my window was smashed,” Mann told CTV News Toronto in an exclusive interview on Thursday.
Two other men then appeared, one armed with a machete, and attacked Mann.
Mann said he offered the group the keys to his vehicle, thinking the suspects were attempting a carjacking, but that didn’t stop them from continuing the attack.
The three suspects pulled Mann from his vehicle and drove him to the end of the road, continuing to assault him.
“If anyone saw this video, they would think I wasn’t alive,” he said.
Mann revealed he was beaten with a machete and axe, pepper sprayed and tasered during the attack.
“I was out of my mind,” he said, recalling the incident.  “I had no idea what was happening to me.”
“They didn’t tell me anything.”
The violence only ended when Mann’s mother, Jasmail Mann, ran from her home to the scene, causing the assailants to flee.  At 3pm on Thursday, Jasmail will be honored for her bravery at Brampton City Hall.
“I’m alive because of my mom and God,” he said.
After the attack, Mann said he observed the three men outside his home for nearly two hours.  He said he assumed they were waiting for him.
At the hospital, Mann said he underwent surgery and more than 180 stitches.  He also said he had to have a toe amputated, is dealing with nerve damage in his hand and is dealing with a number of fractures and cuts.
“My one finger, I can’t feel it,” he said.

Joti Singh Mann speaks to CTV News Toronto on September 1 (CTV News Toronto) Mann said he has developed post-traumatic stress disorder, has been plagued by nightmares and hasn’t slept more than three hours at a time since the attack. Prior to the incident, Mann received a threat while recording a recent episode of his podcast, Peel Regional Police confirmed. They said a security plan was put in place and the threat was reported and is being investigated. At this time, police have not indicated that there is a definitive link between the threat and the attack. Speaking to CP24 earlier in August, Brampton councilor Gurpeet Singh Dhillon said Mann’s attack was the third violent incident involving a Punjabi media personality in Brampton in the past 12 months. In one case, a media anchor’s home was targeted by gunfire. In another, the suspects confronted a media anchor with a gun as he left his studio. “Whether you agree or disagree with them, there should be no violence against them, so hopefully there will be more evidence in these investigations as well,” Dhillon said. Gormley said active investigations were underway into all three incidents and he had no information to suggest Mann’s attack was connected to previous incidents targeting other media figures. He said the three suspects in Mann’s attack, which he characterized as attempted murder, wore mostly black clothing, black gloves and surgical masks covering their faces. Meanwhile, Mann says he still has no idea why the men attacked him. “God knows,” he said. With files from CTV Toronto’s Janice Goulding and CP24’s Chris Herhalt.

title: “Man Recounts Brampton Street Stabbing Klmat” ShowToc: true date: “2022-11-15” author: “Jonathan Alexander”

A Brampton, Ont.  media personality who was savagely attacked with a machete and an ax in the driveway of his home has spoken for the first time since he was ambushed.
On the morning of August 4, Joti Singh Mann, a local podcast host and real estate agent, was getting into his parked Jeep when he was approached by a man wielding an axe.
Video taken from the scene shows a suspect swinging the blade at the vehicle after Mann closed the car door.
“I was sitting in my car and when I looked to the side, my window was smashed,” Mann told CTV News Toronto in an exclusive interview on Thursday.
Two other men then appeared, one armed with a machete, and attacked Mann.
Mann said he offered the group the keys to his vehicle, thinking the suspects were attempting a carjacking, but that didn’t stop them from continuing the attack.
The three suspects pulled Mann from his vehicle and drove him to the end of the road, continuing to assault him.
“If anyone saw this video, they would think I wasn’t alive,” he said.
Mann revealed he was beaten with a machete and axe, pepper sprayed and tasered during the attack.
“I was out of my mind,” he said, recalling the incident.  “I had no idea what was happening to me.”
“They didn’t tell me anything.”
The violence only ended when Mann’s mother, Jasmail Mann, ran from her home to the scene, causing the assailants to flee.  At 3pm on Thursday, Jasmail will be honored for her bravery at Brampton City Hall.
“I’m alive because of my mom and God,” he said.
After the attack, Mann said he observed the three men outside his home for nearly two hours.  He said he assumed they were waiting for him.
At the hospital, Mann said he underwent surgery and more than 180 stitches.  He also said he had to have a toe amputated, is dealing with nerve damage in his hand and is dealing with a number of fractures and cuts.
“My one finger, I can’t feel it,” he said.

Joti Singh Mann speaks to CTV News Toronto on September 1 (CTV News Toronto) Mann said he has developed post-traumatic stress disorder, has been plagued by nightmares and hasn’t slept more than three hours at a time since the attack. Prior to the incident, Mann received a threat while recording a recent episode of his podcast, Peel Regional Police confirmed. They said a security plan was put in place and the threat was reported and is being investigated. At this time, police have not indicated that there is a definitive link between the threat and the attack. Speaking to CP24 earlier in August, Brampton councilor Gurpeet Singh Dhillon said Mann’s attack was the third violent incident involving a Punjabi media personality in Brampton in the past 12 months. In one case, a media anchor’s home was targeted by gunfire. In another, the suspects confronted a media anchor with a gun as he left his studio. “Whether you agree or disagree with them, there should be no violence against them, so hopefully there will be more evidence in these investigations as well,” Dhillon said. Gormley said active investigations were underway into all three incidents and he had no information to suggest Mann’s attack was connected to previous incidents targeting other media figures. He said the three suspects in Mann’s attack, which he characterized as attempted murder, wore mostly black clothing, black gloves and surgical masks covering their faces. Meanwhile, Mann says he still has no idea why the men attacked him. “God knows,” he said. With files from CTV Toronto’s Janice Goulding and CP24’s Chris Herhalt.

title: “Man Recounts Brampton Street Stabbing Klmat” ShowToc: true date: “2022-12-19” author: “Marisela Mitton”

A Brampton, Ont.  media personality who was savagely attacked with a machete and an ax in the driveway of his home has spoken for the first time since he was ambushed.
On the morning of August 4, Joti Singh Mann, a local podcast host and real estate agent, was getting into his parked Jeep when he was approached by a man wielding an axe.
Video taken from the scene shows a suspect swinging the blade at the vehicle after Mann closed the car door.
“I was sitting in my car and when I looked to the side, my window was smashed,” Mann told CTV News Toronto in an exclusive interview on Thursday.
Two other men then appeared, one armed with a machete, and attacked Mann.
Mann said he offered the group the keys to his vehicle, thinking the suspects were attempting a carjacking, but that didn’t stop them from continuing the attack.
The three suspects pulled Mann from his vehicle and drove him to the end of the road, continuing to assault him.
“If anyone saw this video, they would think I wasn’t alive,” he said.
Mann revealed he was beaten with a machete and axe, pepper sprayed and tasered during the attack.
“I was out of my mind,” he said, recalling the incident.  “I had no idea what was happening to me.”
“They didn’t tell me anything.”
The violence only ended when Mann’s mother, Jasmail Mann, ran from her home to the scene, causing the assailants to flee.  At 3pm on Thursday, Jasmail will be honored for her bravery at Brampton City Hall.
“I’m alive because of my mom and God,” he said.
After the attack, Mann said he observed the three men outside his home for nearly two hours.  He said he assumed they were waiting for him.
At the hospital, Mann said he underwent surgery and more than 180 stitches.  He also said he had to have a toe amputated, is dealing with nerve damage in his hand and is dealing with a number of fractures and cuts.
“My one finger, I can’t feel it,” he said.

Joti Singh Mann speaks to CTV News Toronto on September 1 (CTV News Toronto) Mann said he has developed post-traumatic stress disorder, has been plagued by nightmares and hasn’t slept more than three hours at a time since the attack. Prior to the incident, Mann received a threat while recording a recent episode of his podcast, Peel Regional Police confirmed. They said a security plan was put in place and the threat was reported and is being investigated. At this time, police have not indicated that there is a definitive link between the threat and the attack. Speaking to CP24 earlier in August, Brampton councilor Gurpeet Singh Dhillon said Mann’s attack was the third violent incident involving a Punjabi media personality in Brampton in the past 12 months. In one case, a media anchor’s home was targeted by gunfire. In another, the suspects confronted a media anchor with a gun as he left his studio. “Whether you agree or disagree with them, there should be no violence against them, so hopefully there will be more evidence in these investigations as well,” Dhillon said. Gormley said active investigations were underway into all three incidents and he had no information to suggest Mann’s attack was connected to previous incidents targeting other media figures. He said the three suspects in Mann’s attack, which he characterized as attempted murder, wore mostly black clothing, black gloves and surgical masks covering their faces. Meanwhile, Mann says he still has no idea why the men attacked him. “God knows,” he said. With files from CTV Toronto’s Janice Goulding and CP24’s Chris Herhalt.

title: “Man Recounts Brampton Street Stabbing Klmat” ShowToc: true date: “2022-11-16” author: “David Newsome”

A Brampton, Ont.  media personality who was savagely attacked with a machete and an ax in the driveway of his home has spoken for the first time since he was ambushed.
On the morning of August 4, Joti Singh Mann, a local podcast host and real estate agent, was getting into his parked Jeep when he was approached by a man wielding an axe.
Video taken from the scene shows a suspect swinging the blade at the vehicle after Mann closed the car door.
“I was sitting in my car and when I looked to the side, my window was smashed,” Mann told CTV News Toronto in an exclusive interview on Thursday.
Two other men then appeared, one armed with a machete, and attacked Mann.
Mann said he offered the group the keys to his vehicle, thinking the suspects were attempting a carjacking, but that didn’t stop them from continuing the attack.
The three suspects pulled Mann from his vehicle and drove him to the end of the road, continuing to assault him.
“If anyone saw this video, they would think I wasn’t alive,” he said.
Mann revealed he was beaten with a machete and axe, pepper sprayed and tasered during the attack.
“I was out of my mind,” he said, recalling the incident.  “I had no idea what was happening to me.”
“They didn’t tell me anything.”
The violence only ended when Mann’s mother, Jasmail Mann, ran from her home to the scene, causing the assailants to flee.  At 3pm on Thursday, Jasmail will be honored for her bravery at Brampton City Hall.
“I’m alive because of my mom and God,” he said.
After the attack, Mann said he observed the three men outside his home for nearly two hours.  He said he assumed they were waiting for him.
At the hospital, Mann said he underwent surgery and more than 180 stitches.  He also said he had to have a toe amputated, is dealing with nerve damage in his hand and is dealing with a number of fractures and cuts.
“My one finger, I can’t feel it,” he said.

Joti Singh Mann speaks to CTV News Toronto on September 1 (CTV News Toronto) Mann said he has developed post-traumatic stress disorder, has been plagued by nightmares and hasn’t slept more than three hours at a time since the attack. Prior to the incident, Mann received a threat while recording a recent episode of his podcast, Peel Regional Police confirmed. They said a security plan was put in place and the threat was reported and is being investigated. At this time, police have not indicated that there is a definitive link between the threat and the attack. Speaking to CP24 earlier in August, Brampton councilor Gurpeet Singh Dhillon said Mann’s attack was the third violent incident involving a Punjabi media personality in Brampton in the past 12 months. In one case, a media anchor’s home was targeted by gunfire. In another, the suspects confronted a media anchor with a gun as he left his studio. “Whether you agree or disagree with them, there should be no violence against them, so hopefully there will be more evidence in these investigations as well,” Dhillon said. Gormley said active investigations were underway into all three incidents and he had no information to suggest Mann’s attack was connected to previous incidents targeting other media figures. He said the three suspects in Mann’s attack, which he characterized as attempted murder, wore mostly black clothing, black gloves and surgical masks covering their faces. Meanwhile, Mann says he still has no idea why the men attacked him. “God knows,” he said. With files from CTV Toronto’s Janice Goulding and CP24’s Chris Herhalt.