{"id":535213,"date":"2026-03-14T04:58:08","date_gmt":"2026-03-14T04:58:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/535213\/"},"modified":"2026-03-14T04:58:08","modified_gmt":"2026-03-14T04:58:08","slug":"police-identify-60-year-old-woman-as-4th-homicide-of-2026","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/535213\/","title":{"rendered":"Police identify 60-year-old woman as 4th homicide of 2026"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Police have identified a woman whose body was found inside a home in the Hillcrest Village neighbourhood of North York.<\/p>\n<p>Investigators say they were called to a home in the Threadneedle Crescent and Cresthaven Drive area just after 1:30 p.m. on March 11. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe circumstances in which the victim was found were deemed to be suspicious,\u201d police said in a brief statement on Friday night, adding that the homicide squad has now taken over the investigation. <\/p>\n<p>Police have identified the woman as 60-year-old Xian Wei Shao of Toronto. She is the fourth homicide victim in 2026. <\/p>\n<p>No further details as to the circumstances surrounding Shao\u2019s death or a possible suspect description were released. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Police have identified a woman whose body was found inside a home in the Hillcrest Village neighbourhood of&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":535214,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[43,44,41,39,42,40],"class_list":["post-535213","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\/535213","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=535213"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/535213\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/535214"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=535213"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=535213"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=535213"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}