{"id":436798,"date":"2026-01-27T16:37:07","date_gmt":"2026-01-27T16:37:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/436798\/"},"modified":"2026-01-27T16:37:07","modified_gmt":"2026-01-27T16:37:07","slug":"wellesley-station-assault-1-person-critically-injured","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/436798\/","title":{"rendered":"Wellesley Station assault: 1 person critically injured"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"b-date-custom__date-item\">Updated:\u00a0January 27, 2026 at 10:18AM EST<\/p>\n<p class=\"b-date-custom__date-item\">Published:\u00a0January 27, 2026 at 9:14AM EST<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Toronto police say they are searching for a suspect after a person was critically injured in an assault at a downtown subway station on Monday night. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">It happened at around 7 p.m. at Wellesley Station, near Yonge and Wellesley streets.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Police said the victim and suspect were on board a northbound subway train when they became engaged in a physical altercation. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">\u201cThe suspect kicked the victim several times before fleeing the station,\u201d police said in a news release issued Tuesday. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">The victim, according to investigators, suffered life-threatening injuries. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Police have now released a photo of the suspect. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">\u201cInvestigators are asking anyone who may have witnessed or recorded the incident to please contact police,\u201d the news release continued. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Updated:\u00a0January 27, 2026 at 10:18AM EST Published:\u00a0January 27, 2026 at 9:14AM EST Toronto police say they are searching&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":436799,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[712,43,44,41,39,42,40],"class_list":["post-436798","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headlines","tag-apple-news","tag-headlines","tag-news","tag-top-news","tag-top-stories","tag-topnews","tag-topstories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/436798","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=436798"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/436798\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/436799"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=436798"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=436798"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=436798"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}