{"id":550145,"date":"2026-03-21T01:01:09","date_gmt":"2026-03-21T01:01:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/550145\/"},"modified":"2026-03-21T01:01:09","modified_gmt":"2026-03-21T01:01:09","slug":"toronto-vaughan-shootings-isaiah-thomas-badger-arrested","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/550145\/","title":{"rendered":"Toronto, Vaughan shootings: Isaiah Thomas Badger arrested"},"content":{"rendered":"

19-year-old Isaiah Badger has been arrested in connection with two separate shootings in Toronto and Vaughan. <\/p>\n

A suspect wanted in connection with two separate shootings in Toronto and Vaughan earlier this year has been arrested in Calgary, police say.<\/p>\n

In separate updates on Friday, York Regional Police (YRP) and Toronto police announced the arrest of 19-year-old Isaiah Thomas Badger from Edmonton, Alta.<\/p>\n

There was a Canada-wide warrant for Badger<\/a> in the shooting deaths of 65-year-old Sergio Lopes on Jan. 26 and 37-year-old Chandan Kumar Raja Nandakumar on Feb. 7.<\/p>\n

Lopes was found suffering from multiple gunshot wounds<\/a> at a commercial plaza near Winges and Rowntree Dairy roads, south of Highway 7 and Highway 400.<\/p>\n

\"\"Vaughan fatal shooting York police on the scene of a fatal shooting in Vaughan on Jan. 26, 2026. <\/p>\n

He was rushed to the hospital, where he died shortly after.<\/p>\n

Meanwhile, Nandakumar was found shot multiple times<\/a> inside a vehicle at Woodbine Mall. He died in the hospital.<\/p>\n

\"\"Woodbine Mall shooting Police are on the scene of a shooting at Woodbine Mall on Saturday, Feb. 7, 2026. (Jacob Estrin) <\/p>\n

Badger was located by the Calgary Police Fugitive Team on Thursday, Toronto and York police said. <\/p>\n

He has been charged with first-degree murder for the two shootings. He is also facing a charge of arson causing damage to property in the Vaughan incident.<\/p>\n

Earlier this month, YRP also arrested Jacob Wallace<\/a>, a 19-year-old man from Mississauga, for the shooting in Vaughan. He is facing the same charges as Thomas.<\/p>\n

Police allege that Wallace drove the getaway car.<\/p>\n

The motive in the two shootings is still unknown. The two shootings are believed to be targeted, and police underscored that neither victim was involved in any criminal activity in the lead-up to their deaths.<\/p>\n

Investigators have said the only link that the two incidents have is Badger.<\/p>\n

With files from Phil Tsekouras<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"19-year-old Isaiah Badger has been arrested in connection with two separate shootings in Toronto and Vaughan. A suspect…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":550146,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[712,43,44,41,39,42,40],"class_list":{"0":"post-550145","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-headlines","8":"tag-apple-news","9":"tag-headlines","10":"tag-news","11":"tag-top-news","12":"tag-top-stories","13":"tag-topnews","14":"tag-topstories"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/550145","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=550145"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/550145\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/550146"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=550145"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=550145"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=550145"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}