{"id":568743,"date":"2026-03-29T14:06:08","date_gmt":"2026-03-29T14:06:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/568743\/"},"modified":"2026-03-29T14:06:08","modified_gmt":"2026-03-29T14:06:08","slug":"man-charged-with-second-degree-murder-in-fatal-toronto-stabbing-police","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/568743\/","title":{"rendered":"Man charged with second-degree murder in fatal Toronto stabbing: police"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.cbc.ca\/a\/assets\/texttospeech.svg\" alt=\"Text to Speech Icon\" width=\"44\" height=\"44\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Listen to this article<\/p>\n<p>Estimated 1 minute<\/p>\n<p>The audio version of this article is generated by AI-based technology. Mispronunciations can occur. We are working with our partners to continually review and improve the results.<\/p>\n<p>A man has been arrested in relation to the fatal stabbing of a 27-year-old man earlier this week, said Toronto police.<\/p>\n<p>Officers responded around 9:34 p.m. on March 25 near Gamble Avenue and Donlands Avenue for an altercation that was heard behind a building, said Toronto police in a news release Saturday.<\/p>\n<p>Once police arrived, they found a 27-year-old man &#8220;with stab wound and without vital signs.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The man was pronounced dead and identified as Ahmed Hassan Asif. Police said Asif was Toronto&#8217;s fifth homicide victim of 2026.<\/p>\n<p>They said the suspect fled the scene before officers arrived.<\/p>\n<p>A 21-year-old man was arrested Saturday and faces two charges of second-degree murder and robbery. He is expected to appear in court Sunday morning.<\/p>\n<p>Anyone with information is urged to contact investigators or Crime Stoppers.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Listen to this article Estimated 1 minute The audio version of this article is generated by AI-based technology.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":568744,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[194291],"tags":[49,48,3302],"class_list":["post-568743","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\/568743","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=568743"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/568743\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/568744"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=568743"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=568743"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=568743"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}