{"id":198903,"date":"2025-10-09T01:16:07","date_gmt":"2025-10-09T01:16:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/198903\/"},"modified":"2025-10-09T01:16:07","modified_gmt":"2025-10-09T01:16:07","slug":"man-dead-following-assault-in-richmond-hill-york-police","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/198903\/","title":{"rendered":"Man dead following assault in Richmond Hill: York police"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"b-date-custom__date-item\">Updated:\u00a0October 08, 2025 at 8:23PM EDT<\/p>\n<p class=\"b-date-custom__date-item\">Published:\u00a0October 08, 2025 at 8:06PM EDT<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">York Regional Police are investigating a homicide after an assault in Richmond Hill this evening.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Police say officers responded reports of an assault in the area of Lorraine Street and Bernard Avenue just before 5 p.m.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Once on scene, they located a 51-year-old man with serious injuries as the result of an \u201cunprovoked attack.\u201d He was taken to the hospital in life-threatening condition, police say, but he was later pronounced dead.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">The suspect was arrested at the scene and police say there is no risk to the public.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">A large police presence will be in the area as detectives investigate.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Anyone with information is asked to contact police or Crime Stoppers.<\/p>\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">HOMICIDE<br \/>4:53<br \/>Lorraine St and Bernard Ave, Richmond Hill<br \/>&#8211; officers responded to an assault at the above location<br \/>&#8211; on scene they located a male with serious injuries as a result of an unprovoked attack<br \/>&#8211; he was transported to hospital in life-threatening condition where he was\u2026 <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/tf0K3Ny17i\" rel=\"nofollow\">pic.twitter.com\/tf0K3Ny17i<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 York Regional Police (@YRP) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/YRP\/status\/1976075230687690790?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">October 9, 2025<\/a><\/p>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Updated:\u00a0October 08, 2025 at 8:23PM EDT Published:\u00a0October 08, 2025 at 8:06PM EDT York Regional Police are investigating a&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":126678,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[712,49,48,44],"class_list":{"0":"post-198903","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\/198903","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=198903"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/198903\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/126678"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=198903"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=198903"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=198903"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}