{"id":171613,"date":"2025-09-26T22:49:07","date_gmt":"2025-09-26T22:49:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/171613\/"},"modified":"2025-09-26T22:49:07","modified_gmt":"2025-09-26T22:49:07","slug":"whitby-gas-station-shooting-14-year-old-boy-charged","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/171613\/","title":{"rendered":"Whitby gas station shooting: 14-year-old boy charged"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"c-paragraph\">A 14-year-old boy is facing a dozen charges after a shot was fired at a gas station in Whitby earlier this month.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Durham Regional Police said they got a call for an armed person at a gas station near <a href=\"https:\/\/maps.app.goo.gl\/EryLung1q8wSAHRKA\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/maps.app.goo.gl\/EryLung1q8wSAHRKA\">Victoria Street West and Montecorte Street<\/a> on the evening of Sept. 12.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">A male suspect got out of a sedan and allegedly fired a shot. Police said no one was struck fortunately and that the sedan was determined to have been stolen several hours before the shooting.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Three days later, on Sept. 15, officers found the sedan unoccupied in Pickering. Their investigation uncovered that the suspect was believed to be linked to three more stolen vehicles.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">In a news release on Friday, police announced the suspect, a teenager from Pickering, was taken into custody the previous day. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">The boy has been charged with discharging a firearm with intent to endanger life, possession of a prohibited or restricted firearm, occupying a motor vehicle with a firearm, possession of a loaded firearm, possession of an electronic device for motor vehicle theft, possession of a break-in instrument, three counts of driving a motor vehicle without a licence and three counts of possession of property obtained by crime over $5,000.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">The charges have not been tested in court.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">He cannot be identified under the provisions of the Youth Criminal Justice Act.<\/p>\n<p>Correction<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">This article has been updated from a previous version that misidentified the location of the gas station.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A 14-year-old boy is facing a dozen charges after a shot was fired at a gas station in&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":171614,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[712,49,48,44],"class_list":{"0":"post-171613","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\/171613","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=171613"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/171613\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/171614"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=171613"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=171613"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=171613"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}