A 32-year-old man is facing multiple charges in connection with an incident in Toronto's west end last week where two people were shot by a man riding a motorcycle.

In a news release issued Thursday, police said the man was arrested on Tuesday and has been charged with four counts of attempted murder and two counts of aggravated assault, on top of various weapons charges.

The shooting happened at around 2:40 a.m. in the area of King Street W. and Sudbury Street, Toronto police previously said.

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A group of friends were walking in the area when a man, who was driving a motorcycle at a high rate of speed, nearly struck the victims, police said in the news release.

The man then came up to the group and "yelled obscenities at them,"

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