A 15-year-old boy has been arrested in connection to the fatal shooting of Kian Sam, 16, inside a Scarborough Tim Hortons last week. <\/p>\n
Officers were called to the Lawrence Avenue East and Bellamy Road North area for reports of a shooting at around 4 p.m. on Feb. 5 and found the victim in the area with gunshot wounds.<\/p>\n
He was taken to hospital with serious injuries, but police later said he passed away.<\/p>\n
On Tuesday, a 15-year-old boy from Toronto was charged with second-degree murder, possession of a firearm without holding a license and possession of a loaded regulated firearm. <\/p>\n
He was scheduled to appear in court on Tuesday and cannot be identified under the Youth Criminal Justice Act.<\/p>\n
On a U.S. collegiate sports recruiting website, Sam was listed as a student-athlete at Agincourt Collegiate Institute, who listed his goals as graduating with a bachelor\u2019s degree and playing at the \u201cDivision 1 college level, overseas, and in the NBA.\u201d<\/p>\n
This is Toronto\u2019s second homicide of 2026.<\/p>\n
With files from Michael Talbot<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A 15-year-old boy has been arrested in connection to the fatal shooting of Kian Sam, 16, inside a…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":468576,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[43,44,41,39,42,40],"class_list":["post-468575","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headlines","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\/468575","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=468575"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/468575\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/468576"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=468575"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=468575"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=468575"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}