{"id":553165,"date":"2026-03-22T12:06:35","date_gmt":"2026-03-22T12:06:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/553165\/"},"modified":"2026-03-22T12:06:35","modified_gmt":"2026-03-22T12:06:35","slug":"man-19-wanted-in-gta-homicides-arrested-in-calgary","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/553165\/","title":{"rendered":"Man, 19, wanted in GTA homicides arrested in Calgary"},"content":{"rendered":"

A 19-year-old man has been arrested in Calgary in connection to the murder of a 65-year-old man in Vaughan and the murder of a Brampton man outside Woodbine Mall earlier this year.<\/p>\n

The Vaughan homicide happened in the parking lot of a plaza near Highway 7 and Weston Road, at around 1 p.m. on Jan. 26.<\/p>\n

Officers said at the time they received multiple calls for reports of gunshots being fired. After emergency crews arrived, the injured victim was found in front of a business. He was taken to a hospital where he was later pronounced dead.<\/p>\n

The victim was identified as Richmond Hill resident Sergio Lopes.<\/p>\n

\"\"Isaiah Badger, 19, of Edmonton, has been arrested in connection to a homicide in Vaughan. HANDOUT\/York Regional Police<\/p>\n

More than a week later, Chandan Kumar Raja Nandakumar, 37, of Brampton, Ont., was killed at around 3:30 p.m. ET on Feb. 7 in a shooting outside Woodbine Mall.<\/p>\n

Toronto police officers found him suffering from gunshot wounds in the mall parking lot. He was pronounced dead shortly after.<\/p>\n

Investigators have identified Isaiah Thomas Badger, of Edmonton, as a suspect in both of the shootings.<\/p>\n

On March 19, Badger was located by Calgary police and taken into custody. He\u2019s been charged with first-degree murder and arson causing damage to property by York police and an additional first-degree murder charge by Toronto police.<\/p>\n

He is currently being escorted to Toronto to appear in court.<\/p>\n

Another 19-year-old suspect was arrested earlier this month in Moosonee, Ont.<\/a> in connection to Lopes\u2019 death. He\u2019s facing charges of first-degree murder and arson causing property damage.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A 19-year-old man has been arrested in Calgary in connection to the murder of a 65-year-old man in…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":553166,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[194293],"tags":[49,2798,48],"class_list":{"0":"post-553165","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-calgary","8":"tag-ca","9":"tag-calgary","10":"tag-canada"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/553165","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=553165"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/553165\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/553166"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=553165"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=553165"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=553165"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}