{"id":641542,"date":"2026-05-01T20:49:10","date_gmt":"2026-05-01T20:49:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/641542\/"},"modified":"2026-05-01T20:49:10","modified_gmt":"2026-05-01T20:49:10","slug":"stabbing-suspect-dead-after-being-involved-in-accident-while-fleeing-scene-toronto-police","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/641542\/","title":{"rendered":"Stabbing suspect dead after being involved in accident while fleeing scene: Toronto police"},"content":{"rendered":"

One person is in hospital following a stabbing in St. James Town and one suspect died while allegedly fleeing from the scene. CP24\u2019s Allison Hurst reports. <\/p>\n

Police say one person was stabbed inside a downtown Toronto building Friday morning, while the suspect later died after attempting to flee the scene.<\/p>\n

Toronto police say officers responded at about 11 a.m. to reports of a stabbing near Bleecker and Wellesley streets.<\/p>\n

\"\"Police remain on scene after a Friday morning stabbing in downtown Toronto. <\/p>\n

When officers arrived, they located a victim suffering from stab wounds. <\/p>\n

Paramedics say that the victim was subsequently taken to hospital in serious but stable condition. <\/p>\n

Police say while officers were tending to the victim, they were notified the suspect was attempting to flee the area.<\/p>\n

During the attempted escape, the suspect was involved in an accident and was pronounced dead at the scene.<\/p>\n

Footage from CP24\u2019s chopper on Friday morning shows a significant police presence outside of a high-rise building.<\/p>\n

\"\"Police remain on scene after a Friday morning stabbing in downtown Toronto. <\/p>\n

It is not clear if the suspect was being pursued by officers at the time.<\/p>\n

A spokesperson for the Special Investigations Unit (SIU) said the agency has been notified \u201cand is in the process of determining if this falls under our mandate.\u201d<\/p>\n

The SIU is an arm\u2019s-length agency called in to investigate whenever police are involved in a death, serious injury, allegations of sexual assault, or the discharge of a weapon.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"One person is in hospital following a stabbing in St. James Town and one suspect died while allegedly…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":641543,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[712,49,48,44],"class_list":["post-641542","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\/641542","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=641542"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/641542\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/641543"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=641542"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=641542"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=641542"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}