{"id":608992,"date":"2026-04-16T23:15:07","date_gmt":"2026-04-16T23:15:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/608992\/"},"modified":"2026-04-16T23:15:07","modified_gmt":"2026-04-16T23:15:07","slug":"pickering-student-stabbing-suspect-facing-charges","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/608992\/","title":{"rendered":"Pickering student stabbing: suspect facing charges"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"c-paragraph\">A 20-year-old man has been charged after a fight off school property in Pickering ended <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cp24.com\/local\/durham\/2026\/04\/15\/suspect-in-custody-after-youth-stabbed-in-pickering-police-say\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.cp24.com\/local\/durham\/2026\/04\/15\/suspect-in-custody-after-youth-stabbed-in-pickering-police-say\/\">in a stabbing<\/a> that left a fellow student with serious injuries on Wednesday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.drps.ca\/news\/posts\/male-arrested-after-stabbing-in-pickering\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.drps.ca\/news\/posts\/male-arrested-after-stabbing-in-pickering\/\">Durham police said<\/a> an assist ambulance call came in at 11:15 a.m. at Pine Ridge Secondary School.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">A student was initially reported to have taken a fall, but when paramedics arrived and learned that the student had been assaulted with a weapon, they said they called police.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Officers attended the school and discovered two students were involved in an altercation off school property, police said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">During the altercation, one student demanded the other hand over his personal property. When the victim refused, the suspect allegedly brandished an edged weapon and stabbed him.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">The victim, a youth, was shortly taken to a Toronto-area trauma centre with serious but non-life-threatening injuries, police said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Meanwhile, officers located the suspect at the school and arrested him without incident.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">In a news release on Thursday, police identified the suspect as 20-year-old Zaidan Ibrahim Mohamed Abkar of Pickering.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">He has been charged with aggravated assault, assault with a weapon, assault, possession of weapon dangerous, robbery and failure to comply with a probation order.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A 20-year-old man has been charged after a fight off school property in Pickering ended in a stabbing&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":608993,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[712,49,48,44],"class_list":["post-608992","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-canada","tag-apple-news","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/608992","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=608992"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/608992\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/608993"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=608992"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=608992"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=608992"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}