{"id":501189,"date":"2026-02-26T16:54:09","date_gmt":"2026-02-26T16:54:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/501189\/"},"modified":"2026-02-26T16:54:09","modified_gmt":"2026-02-26T16:54:09","slug":"police-identify-suspect-arrest-2-others-in-toronto-teens-shooting-death","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/501189\/","title":{"rendered":"Police identify suspect, arrest 2 others in Toronto teen\u2019s shooting death"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Toronto police have identified a 20-year-old man as a suspect and arrested two others in relation to the fatal shooting of a 15-year-old boy last year.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Jahkai Jack, of Toronto, was shot \u201cwithout provocation\u201d the evening of June 7, 2025 near Emmett Avenue and Jane Street, said police at a news conference last year. <\/p>\n

Officers have now identified Abdul Yeberebaba, of Toronto, as the suspect in the case. He’s wanted by police on a Canada-wide warrant for second-degree murder, said Det.-Sgt. Phillip Campbell at a news conference on Thursday.<\/p>\n

Two Toronto men, 19-year-old Jayden Samuel-James and 21-year-old Rajveer Gill, were arrested and charged this week with accessory after the fact to murder, said Campbell. <\/p>\n

He said Gill was arrested in B.C. and will be returned to Toronto.<\/p>\n

Jack was shot following a verbal exchange at a \u201cgathering\u201d in the area. Police said he was not involved in any gangs or criminal activity.<\/p>\n

\u201cHe was simply a young person meeting friends on a Saturday night,\u201d said\u00a0Campbell. \u201cHis family continues to live with the unimaginable loss of a child whose life was just beginning.\u201d<\/p>\n

\"AFifteen-year-old Jahkai Jack, of Toronto, was shot near Emmett Avenue and Jane Street on June 7, 2025. (Toronto Police Service)<\/p>\n

At the time, investigators had little information on the suspect other than he was male and wearing dark clothes during the shooting.\u00a0<\/p>\n

After the shooting, Jack was taken by people at the park to a nearby health-care centre. Residents in the area said cries for help at the facility’s front door went ignored<\/a> as the teen lay bleeding out. <\/p>\n

Campbell said he issued a warning last year that anyone found helping the suspect would also face charges. The latest arrests, he said, are proof that they \u201cmeant what [they] said.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cIf you choose to help someone avoid accountability, you\u2019re committing a serious criminal offence,\u201d he said.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Campbell urged Yeberebaba to turn himself in to police. <\/p>\n

Anyone who believes they have seen the suspect or has any information is requested to contact police or Crime Stoppers immediately, Campbell said. <\/p>\n

\u201cIf anybody out there has anything, even an idea or a theory \u2026 of where [Yeberebaba] might be, give me a call. I\u2019ll investigate it. I want to get this person into custody,\u201d\u00a0he said. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Listen to this article Estimated 2 minutes The audio version of this article is generated by AI-based technology.…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":501190,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[194291],"tags":[49,48,3302],"class_list":["post-501189","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-toronto","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-toronto"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/501189","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=501189"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/501189\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/501190"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=501189"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=501189"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=501189"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}