{"id":152842,"date":"2025-09-18T14:51:09","date_gmt":"2025-09-18T14:51:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/152842\/"},"modified":"2025-09-18T14:51:09","modified_gmt":"2025-09-18T14:51:09","slug":"suspect-wanted-on-canada-wide-warrant-for-1st-degree-murder-of-man-in-toronto-toronto","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/152842\/","title":{"rendered":"Suspect wanted on Canada-wide warrant for 1st-degree murder of man in Toronto &#8211; Toronto"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t\tDescrease article font size<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\tIncrease article font size<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/globalnews.ca\/tag\/toronto-police\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Toronto police<\/a> say they have identified a suspect wanted on a Canada-wide warrant for first-degree murder of a man shot and killed in his car last week.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/1758044768_711_70c8fc80.png\" alt=\"\" style=\"position:absolute;width:1px;height:1px\" referrerpolicy=\"no-referrer-when-downgrade\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Just before midnight on Sept. 13, police said 43-year-old Paulin Harusha was found inside a vehicle suffering from gunshot wounds near Victoria Park and Sheppard avenues.<\/p>\n<p>Despite life saving measures, Harusha died at the scene.<\/p>\n<p>A light-coloured SUV was seen leaving the area before officers arrived, police said.<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" width=\"170\" height=\"225\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/1758044768_914_national.jpg\" alt=\"Get the day's top news, political, economic, and current affairs headlines, delivered to your inbox once a day.\"\/><\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\tGet daily National news<\/p>\n<p>Get the day&#8217;s top news, political, economic, and current affairs headlines, delivered to your inbox once a day.<\/p>\n<p>Police have identified a suspect they allege is responsible for Harusha\u2019s death. He has been identified as <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tps.ca\/media-centre\/news-releases\/64038\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">34-year-old Meelad Tarin<\/a> and there is a Canada-wide warrant for his arrest.<\/p>\n<p>Det. Sgt. Alan Bartlett from the homicide unit told reporters the nature of the relationship between the accused and the victim is still under investigation but that there was \u201csome familiarity between the two of them.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\n\t\tTrending Now\n\t<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t<a href=\"https:\/\/globalnews.ca\/news\/11432290\/bank-of-canada-rate-decision-september-2025\/\" class=\"c-posts__inner\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" class=\"c-posts__thumbnail\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/1758207069_866_b7a244ddeaed3e13b616fd4fe5ec502e7707dce15e34c546867c6a8d0a0de0e7.jpg\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"336\" height=\"224\" alt=\"\"\/><\/p>\n<p>\n\t\t\t\t\tBank of Canada delivers 1st interest rate cut since March\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t<a href=\"https:\/\/globalnews.ca\/news\/11433031\/d4vd-singer-body-missing-teen-tesla\/\" class=\"c-posts__inner\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" class=\"c-posts__thumbnail\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/d4vd-tesla-body.jpg\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"336\" height=\"224\" alt=\"\"\/><\/p>\n<p>\n\t\t\t\t\tDecomposed body found in singer D4vd\u2019s impounded Tesla IDed as missing teen\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Story continues below advertisement<\/p>\n<p>Bartlett would not speak about any prior criminal history with either the accused or the victim. He also did not reveal if a firearm was recovered but did say there was evidence of a firearm discharge at the scene.<\/p>\n<p>He also said the suspect did get out of his vehicle at some point but would not elaborate on who else may have been involved.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI can tell you that Mr. Harusha has a family that is devastated, he has friends. The loss has left a hole in this family,\u201d Bartlett said.<\/p>\n<p>\n\t\t\tMore on Crime<br \/>\n\t\t\tMore videos\n\t\t<\/p>\n<p>\n\t\t&amp;copy 2025 Global News, a division of Corus Entertainment Inc.\t<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Descrease article font size Increase article font size Toronto police say they have identified a suspect wanted on&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":152843,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[49,48,2169,44,79076,80130],"class_list":{"0":"post-152842","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-canada","8":"tag-ca","9":"tag-canada","10":"tag-crime","11":"tag-news","12":"tag-toronto-police","13":"tag-toronto-shooting"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/152842","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=152842"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/152842\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/152843"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=152842"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=152842"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=152842"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}