{"id":120496,"date":"2025-09-04T23:33:07","date_gmt":"2025-09-04T23:33:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/120496\/"},"modified":"2025-09-04T23:33:07","modified_gmt":"2025-09-04T23:33:07","slug":"scarborough-double-shooting-14-year-old-suspect-wanted","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/120496\/","title":{"rendered":"Scarborough double shooting: 14-year-old suspect wanted"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"c-paragraph\">A 14-year-old boy is wanted in connection with <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cp24.com\/local\/toronto\/2025\/09\/01\/2-men-critically-injured-in-targeted-scarborough-shooting-police\/\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.cp24.com\/local\/toronto\/2025\/09\/01\/2-men-critically-injured-in-targeted-scarborough-shooting-police\/\">a shooting in Scarborough<\/a> that left two men seriously injured on Sunday afternoon.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Toronto police said the boy attended a residence near Danforth Road and Eglinton Avenue East and allegedly discharged his firearm, striking a 21-year-old man and a 22-year-old man.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Shortly after, the boy fled. When officers arrived, they located the two victims and paramedics transported them to the hospital with serious but non-life-threatening injuries.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Teenage suspects cannot be identified under the provisions of the Youth Criminal Justice Act, but <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tps.ca\/media-centre\/news-releases\/63938\/\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.tps.ca\/media-centre\/news-releases\/63938\/\">Toronto police said<\/a> they have obtained a judicial authorization to name him and release his image.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">They said Valentino Bethel of Toronto is wanted for 11 charges, including two counts of attempted murder, two counts of discharging a firearm with intent and two counts of failing to comply with a release order.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" data-chromatic=\"ignore\" alt=\"\" class=\"c-image\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/QQVVRC4F2ZCOFLJXNLVPZGCOAA.jpg\"  width=\"800\" height=\"450\"\/>Valentino Bethel Valentino Bethel is wanted in a double shooting in Scarborough. (Toronto police handout) <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Police said Bethel who stands six-foot-one and weighs 150 pounds is considered armed and dangerous.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">The judicial order will expire on Sept. 9 at 1 p.m.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">They are asking anyone with information about his whereabouts to contact them at 416-808-4300 or Crime Stoppers anonymously at 416-222-TIPS (8477).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A 14-year-old boy is wanted in connection with a shooting in Scarborough that left two men seriously injured&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":120497,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[712,49,48,44],"class_list":{"0":"post-120496","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-canada","8":"tag-apple-news","9":"tag-ca","10":"tag-canada","11":"tag-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/120496","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=120496"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/120496\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/120497"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=120496"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=120496"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=120496"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}