{"id":152390,"date":"2025-09-18T09:50:09","date_gmt":"2025-09-18T09:50:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/152390\/"},"modified":"2025-09-18T09:50:09","modified_gmt":"2025-09-18T09:50:09","slug":"toronto-unprovoked-stabbing-suspect-wanted","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/152390\/","title":{"rendered":"Toronto unprovoked stabbing: suspect wanted"},"content":{"rendered":"

Updated:\u00a0September 17, 2025 at 9:23PM EDT<\/p>\n

Published:\u00a0September 17, 2025 at 8:42PM EDT<\/p>\n

Toronto police have released an image of a suspect<\/a> wanted in connection with an unprovoked stabbing in the city\u2019s Weston neighbourhood that left one man seriously injured on Wednesday morning.<\/p>\n

It happened just after 11:45 a.m. in the area of Weston Road and King Street<\/a>, north of Lawrence Avenue West.<\/p>\n

Police said a man was working at the rear of a building when the suspect approached him from behind and stabbed him unprovoked.<\/p>\n

The suspect fled while the victim was taken to the hospital with serious but non-life-threatening injuries, police said.<\/p>\n

The suspect is described as a male with a medium to stocky build and a beard.<\/p>\n

\"\"Toronto stabbing suspect Suspect wanted in an unprovoked stabbing near Weston and Lawrence on Wednesday, Sept. 17, 2025. (Toronto Police Service) <\/p>\n

He was last seen wearing a black balaclava, a black hooded sweater with a white Nike logo on the front, black track pants with light-coloured panels on the calves and black running shoes.<\/p>\n

Police are asking anyone with information about the suspect\u2019s identity to contact them at 416-808-1200 or Crime Stoppers anonymously at 416-222-TIPS (8477).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Updated:\u00a0September 17, 2025 at 9:23PM EDT Published:\u00a0September 17, 2025 at 8:42PM EDT Toronto police have released an image…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":152391,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[712,49,48,44],"class_list":{"0":"post-152390","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\/152390","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=152390"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/152390\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/152391"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=152390"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=152390"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=152390"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}