It has been a violent 2021 for police so far and it is only the first day of the year.

Toronto Police were scouring the streets of Mimico for evidence as they responded to one of 2021’s two stabbings that occurred early New Year’s day.

Shortly after 1 a.m. officers were dispatched to a stabbing that took place at Mimico Ave. and Lake Shore Blvd. W.

“Officers located an adult male with stab wound,” according to a police tweet. “The man was taken to hospital. The suspect fled on foot.”

Police describe the suspect as a male white, in his 60s, with a red hat and white hair.

The victim was treated in hospital and is expected to survive.

Hours later at 6:50 a.m. officers were called to deal with another stabbing in the Queen St. W., and Dunn Ave., in the Parkdale area.

Police said in that attack a man was suffered multiple stab wounds. He is expected to survive.

One man is in custody.

The Mimico incident brought back bad memories for residents of a shooting last August at the same spot.  In that case, a man was shot several times in the same area by a shooter who fled on foot.

The victim survived and the shooter is still at large.

And, on December 30 a local man was shot by police for allegedly waving an axe or hatchet near Lake Shore Blvd. W. and Twenty Fourth Street, in Long Branch.

The Special Investigations Unit is investigating the incident that sent a 30-year-old victim to hospital with serious gunshot wounds.