{"id":336568,"date":"2025-12-10T10:16:09","date_gmt":"2025-12-10T10:16:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/336568\/"},"modified":"2025-12-10T10:16:09","modified_gmt":"2025-12-10T10:16:09","slug":"human-remains-found-in-niagara-on-the-lake-belonged-to-missing-toronto-man","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/336568\/","title":{"rendered":"Human remains found in Niagara-on-the-Lake belonged to missing Toronto man"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Human remains found in Niagara-on-the-Lake in August belonged to a 24-year-old Black man from Toronto who went missing in May 2022.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Niagara Regional Police said <a href=\"https:\/\/www.niagarapolice.ca\/en\/news\/update-2-homicide-unit-investigating-human-remains-niagara-on-the-lake.aspx\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.niagarapolice.ca\/en\/news\/update-2-homicide-unit-investigating-human-remains-niagara-on-the-lake.aspx\">in a news release<\/a> that the man\u2019s identity is not being released at the request of his family.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Police have deemed the man\u2019s death a homicide and previously said he was killed between late 2021 and spring of 2025.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">\u201cThis homicide remains an active investigation by detectives with the NRPS Homicide Unit in collaboration with the Toronto Police Service,\u201d Tuesday\u2019s news release read.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Police were called to an area near Read Road and the shore of Lake Ontario on the afternoon of Aug. 31, 2025, for reports of human remains.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Officers arrived and initially found a human skull. Three days later, full skeletal remains were recovered from the same area.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">The cause of death has not been disclosed.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Police are asking anyone with information to contact them at 905-688-4111, option 3, ext. 1009417 or Crime Stoppers anonymously.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Human remains found in Niagara-on-the-Lake in August belonged to a 24-year-old Black man from Toronto who went missing&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":335724,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[712,49,48,44],"class_list":{"0":"post-336568","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\/336568","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=336568"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/336568\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/335724"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=336568"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=336568"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=336568"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}