{"id":143411,"date":"2025-09-14T13:40:07","date_gmt":"2025-09-14T13:40:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/143411\/"},"modified":"2025-09-14T13:40:07","modified_gmt":"2025-09-14T13:40:07","slug":"man-shot-dead-near-scarborough-plaza-police-say","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/143411\/","title":{"rendered":"Man shot dead near Scarborough plaza, police say"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Police were called to a commercial plaza in Scarborough on Saturday evening after receiving reports of gunshots in the area of Victoria Park Avenue and Sheppard Avenue East.<\/p>\n<p>According to authorities, a man in his 40s was located at the scene with a gunshot wound, just before midnight and was pronounced dead.<\/p>\n<p>Officers say the suspect(s) fled the scene and an investigation is ongoing.<\/p>\n<p>Victoria Park Avenue is closed between Farmcrest Drive and Consumers Road. Farmcrest Drive is also closed between Meadowacres Drive and Victoria Park Avenue. Drivers are advised to use alternate routes.<\/p>\n<p>Homicide detectives are expected to provide an update at 10:00 a.m. on Sunday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Police were called to a commercial plaza in Scarborough on Saturday evening after receiving reports of gunshots in&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":127392,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[43,44,41,39,42,40],"class_list":{"0":"post-143411","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-headlines","8":"tag-headlines","9":"tag-news","10":"tag-top-news","11":"tag-top-stories","12":"tag-topnews","13":"tag-topstories"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/143411","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=143411"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/143411\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/127392"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=143411"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=143411"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=143411"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}