{"id":312597,"date":"2025-11-28T16:38:07","date_gmt":"2025-11-28T16:38:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/312597\/"},"modified":"2025-11-28T16:38:07","modified_gmt":"2025-11-28T16:38:07","slug":"toronto-police-search-for-man-in-north-york-assault","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/312597\/","title":{"rendered":"Toronto police search for man in North York assault"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Police are searching for a 33-year-old man who allegedly assaulted someone in North York earlier this week. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">The incident happened at around 5:50 p.m. on Wednesday, when the victim was walking around in the area of Yonge Street and Empress Avenue, west of Doris Avenue. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.tps.ca\/media-centre\/news-releases\/64680\/\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.tps.ca\/media-centre\/news-releases\/64680\/\">Toronto police<\/a> say the suspect walked toward the victim from behind and allegedly assaulted them. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">They did not know each other, police said, and the circumstances surrounding the incident are unclear at this time.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">The victim was rushed to the hospital with non-life-threatening injuries. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Police identified the accused in a news release as Toronto-resident Cassim Cummings, who is wanted for assault cause bodily harm. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Authorities describe him as five-foot-10, weighing 165 pounds with a thin build, short black hair and a black beard. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Investigators are asking anyone with information to contact police or Crime Stoppers anonymously. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Police are searching for a 33-year-old man who allegedly assaulted someone in North York earlier this week. The&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":312598,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[712,49,48,44],"class_list":{"0":"post-312597","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\/312597","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=312597"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/312597\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/312598"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=312597"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=312597"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=312597"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}