{"id":380543,"date":"2026-01-01T01:41:10","date_gmt":"2026-01-01T01:41:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/380543\/"},"modified":"2026-01-01T01:41:10","modified_gmt":"2026-01-01T01:41:10","slug":"man-in-tent-that-was-set-on-fire-near-downtown-church-has-died-murder-charge-laid-toronto-police","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/380543\/","title":{"rendered":"Man in tent that was set on fire near downtown church has died, murder charge laid: Toronto police"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A man who was gravely injured after the <a href=\"https:\/\/toronto.citynews.ca\/2025\/12\/26\/man-seriously-injured-after-fire-outside-of-downtown-toronto-church-building\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">tent he was in was set on fire<\/a> in front of a downtown church has died in hospital, Toronto police said, prompting investigators to lay a new first-degree murder charge.<\/p>\n<p>Investigators allege the accused, Loewen Wolfe, 36, of Toronto, deliberately set the tent, and a mattress, on fire in front of the church in the Charles Street and Yonge Street area in the early morning hours of December 26, 2025.<\/p>\n<p>Police further allege that the suspect threw various items on top of the tent to accelerate the fire.<\/p>\n<p>A man identified as Keith Appleby, 51, was inside the tent at the time.<\/p>\n<p>He was rushed to hospital with life-threatening injuries, but died a few days later on Monday, December 29, police said.<\/p>\n<p>The suspect, previously facing a variety of arson-related charges, is now facing a new count of first-degree murder.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A man who was gravely injured after the tent he was in was set on fire in front&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":380544,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[43,44,41,39,42,40],"class_list":{"0":"post-380543","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-headlines","8":"tag-headlines","9":"tag-news","10":"tag-top-news","11":"tag-top-stories","12":"tag-topnews","13":"tag-topstories"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/380543","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=380543"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/380543\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/380544"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=380543"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=380543"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=380543"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}