TORONTO -- The young man facing 16 charges in Sunday's triple-fatal crash on Finch Ave. W. appeared briefly in court yesterday but will remain in custody for at least a few more weeks.
Roman Luskin, 21, will next appear in court on Oct. 30 by video to set a date for his bail hearing.
Luskin, sporting multiple bruises on the right side of his head, limped into the prisoner's box at the 1000 Finch Ave. W. courthouse yesterday morning. After surveying the packed courtroom, he showed no emotion.
Luskin's lawyer, Michael Simrod, wouldn't comment. He was accompanied outside court by Luskin's Russian-speaking mother, who looked distraught as reporters and photographers followed the pair outside court.
At her apartment in the Bathurst St. and Steeles Ave. W. area yesterday afternoon, the mother, still sounding upset, refused comment from behind the closed door of her highrise unit.
"I don't want to talk to anybody," she said.
Luskin is charged in connection with the crash that killed three women at Finch Ave. W. and Tobermory Dr. on Saturday night just before midnight.
Among the charges he faces are three counts of criminal negligence causing death, three counts of impaired driving causing death, three counts of refusing to supply a breath sample causing death, and failure to comply with a court order.
In August 2007, Luskin was convicted of five fraud-related charges stemming from an ATM scam perpetrated in a Kingston Scotiabank a year earlier. Two years later, Luskin also faced six charges -- including refusal to take a breathalyser test -- that were either stayed or withdrawn.
