A 12-year-old boy and a 20-year-old man have been arrested with connection to a series of violent robberies and an unprovoked attack that resulted in the death of a man in downtown Toronto late last month.

Toronto police said the 62-year-old male victim was sleeping on a bench in the Queen Street West and Bay Street area on Aug. 31, just after 6 a.m., when the suspects approached him and attacked him with a weapon.

Police said one of the suspects was armed with a hammer.

The suspects then fled the area, police said.

The victim attended a hospital with serious injuries and was released.

On Sept. 4, the victim was located at the scene without vital signs, and succumbed to his injuries, police said.

Police said the victim's cause of death was determined to be related to the attack from

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