{"id":152844,"date":"2025-09-18T14:52:09","date_gmt":"2025-09-18T14:52:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/152844\/"},"modified":"2025-09-18T14:52:09","modified_gmt":"2025-09-18T14:52:09","slug":"suspect-arrested-in-unprovoked-stabbing-near-weston-and-king-toronto-police","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/152844\/","title":{"rendered":"Suspect arrested in unprovoked stabbing near Weston and King: Toronto police"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Toronto police say a suspect is now in custody following an unprovoked, daylight stabbing that left one man seriously injured in Toronto\u2019s Weston neighbourhood on Wednesday. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">According to police, a man working at the rear of a building in the area of Weston Road and King Street <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cp24.com\/local\/toronto\/2025\/09\/18\/suspect-sought-after-worker-seriously-injured-in-unprovoked-toronto-stabbing\/\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.cp24.com\/local\/toronto\/2025\/09\/18\/suspect-sought-after-worker-seriously-injured-in-unprovoked-toronto-stabbing\/\">was approached from behind<\/a> and stabbed by another man at around 11:45 a.m. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">The suspect, police said, then fled the area and the victim was taken to hospital with serious, but non-life-threatening, injuries.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">On Thursday morning, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tps.ca\/media-centre\/news-releases\/64044\/\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.tps.ca\/media-centre\/news-releases\/64044\/\">police said a suspect was taken into custody <\/a>in connection with the incident. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Joshua Alexander, 26, of Toronto, has been arrested and charged with aggravated assault and assault with a weapon. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">He is scheduled to appear at the Toronto Regional Bail Centre at 10 a.m. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">None of the charges have been tested in court. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Toronto police say a suspect is now in custody following an unprovoked, daylight stabbing that left one man&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":150948,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[712,49,48,44],"class_list":{"0":"post-152844","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\/152844","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=152844"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/152844\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/150948"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=152844"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=152844"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=152844"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}