{"id":141724,"date":"2025-09-13T20:01:07","date_gmt":"2025-09-13T20:01:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/141724\/"},"modified":"2025-09-13T20:01:07","modified_gmt":"2025-09-13T20:01:07","slug":"toronto-man-charged-after-two-unprovoked-assaults","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/141724\/","title":{"rendered":"Toronto man charged after two \u2018unprovoked\u2019 assaults"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Toronto police say a man in his 30s has been arrested following what they describe as <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tps.ca\/media-centre\/news-releases\/63994\/\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.tps.ca\/media-centre\/news-releases\/63994\/\">two \u201cunprovoked\u201d assaults<\/a> in North York earlier this week. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Officers responded to a call in the Weston Road and Finch Avenue area on Thursday at around 8:50 p.m. It\u2019s alleged that the suspect first attacked a man sitting with his family, repeatedly punching him and striking him with a weapon before fleeing the are. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">The victim was taken to hospital with non-life-threatening injuries, police said. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">In addition, police further allege the same suspect later struck another person with a weapon after they tried to intervene in a verbal altercation. That victim also sustained non-life-threatening injuries.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">The suspect, who police identify as 37-year-old Victory Ogih of Toronto, has been charged with assault, two counts of assault with a weapon, two counts of assault causing bodily harm, and two counts of failing to comply with a release order.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Investigators believe there may be additional victims.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">None of the charges have been tested in court but police say Ogih did make his first appearance on Friday. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Anyone with further information is asked to come forward and contact Toronto police or Crime Stoppers. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Toronto police say a man in his 30s has been arrested following what they describe as two \u201cunprovoked\u201d&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":141725,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[712,49,48,44],"class_list":{"0":"post-141724","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\/141724","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=141724"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/141724\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/141725"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=141724"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=141724"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=141724"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}