{"id":164388,"date":"2025-09-23T18:19:07","date_gmt":"2025-09-23T18:19:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/164388\/"},"modified":"2025-09-23T18:19:07","modified_gmt":"2025-09-23T18:19:07","slug":"suspect-wanted-in-east-toronto-murder-turns-himself-in","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/164388\/","title":{"rendered":"Suspect wanted in east Toronto murder turns himself in"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"c-paragraph\">A Toronto man who was wanted on a Canada-wide warrant for first-degree murder in connection with the shooting death of a 43-year-old man in the city\u2019s east end has been apprehended.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">On Monday, 34-year-old Meelad Tarin turned himself in to police. He was subsequently arrested and charged with first-degree murder.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Tarin was scheduled to appear in bail court on Sept. 23.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">On Sept. 13, just before midnight, Toronto police were called to the area of Victoria Park and Sheppard Avenue east for reports of someone who had been shot.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">At the scene, officers located a male victim inside a vehicle suffering from injuries. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Life-saving measures were performed but the victim, later identified by police as 43-year-old <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cp24.com\/local\/toronto\/2025\/09\/18\/suspect-identified-in-murder-of-man-found-with-gunshot-wounds-inside-vehicle-in-north-york-police\/\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.cp24.com\/local\/toronto\/2025\/09\/18\/suspect-identified-in-murder-of-man-found-with-gunshot-wounds-inside-vehicle-in-north-york-police\/\">Paulin Harusha<\/a>, of Toronto, was pronounced dead at the scene. He is the city\u2019s 31st homicide victim of the year.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" data-chromatic=\"ignore\" alt=\"43-year-old Paulin Harusha has been identified as Toronto\u2019s 31st homicide following a shooting that took place over the weekend in North York.\" class=\"c-image\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/MWCKEFKBE5HW3ODB2VDGJB7IDU.jpg\"  width=\"800\" height=\"450\"\/>43-year-old Paulin Harusha has been identified as Toronto\u2019s 31st homicide following a shooting that took place over the weekend in North York. 43-year-old Paulin Harusha has been identified as Toronto\u2019s 31st homicide following a shooting that took place over the weekend in North York. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">The suspects, meanwhile, fled the scene in a light-coloured SUV prior to police arrival, investigators said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">This investigation is ongoing and anyone with further information is asked to contact Toronto police at 416-808-7400 or Crime Stoppers anonymously.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A Toronto man who was wanted on a Canada-wide warrant for first-degree murder in connection with the shooting&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":164389,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[712,43,44,41,39,42,40],"class_list":{"0":"post-164388","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-headlines","8":"tag-apple-news","9":"tag-headlines","10":"tag-news","11":"tag-top-news","12":"tag-top-stories","13":"tag-topnews","14":"tag-topstories"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/164388","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=164388"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/164388\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/164389"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=164388"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=164388"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=164388"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}