{"id":283090,"date":"2025-11-14T18:35:10","date_gmt":"2025-11-14T18:35:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/283090\/"},"modified":"2025-11-14T18:35:10","modified_gmt":"2025-11-14T18:35:10","slug":"suspect-charged-after-jewish-person-assaulted-in-north-york","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/283090\/","title":{"rendered":"Suspect charged after Jewish person assaulted in North York"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Toronto police have charged a suspect following an alleged antisemitic assault in the Lawrence Manor area in North York. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">It happened near Bathurst Street and Baycrest Avenue at around 7:30 p.m. on Sept. 27, during the Jewish sabbath and high holiday period. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">According to police, the suspect was a passenger in a moving vehicle when he assaulted a victim who was walking on the sidewalk, and also directed racial slurs toward them. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Police said the victim was identifiable as a Jewish person at the time of the assault. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">\u201cThis investigation is being treated as a suspected hate-motivated offence,\u201d police said. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Investigators <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cp24.com\/local\/toronto\/2025\/11\/11\/police-release-image-of-suspect-accused-of-hate-motivated-assault-in-north-york\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">released photos of a suspect<\/a> on Nov. 11 in an effort to identify him. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Police said Friday that 21-year-old Junhee Jeong was <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tps.ca\/media-centre\/news-releases\/64575\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">arrested on Nov. 12<\/a> and has since been charged with assault. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">He is scheduled to make a court appearance on Jan. 7. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Toronto police have charged a suspect following an alleged antisemitic assault in the Lawrence Manor area in North&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":283091,"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-283090","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\/283090","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=283090"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/283090\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/283091"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=283090"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=283090"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=283090"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}