{"id":644651,"date":"2026-05-03T07:23:18","date_gmt":"2026-05-03T07:23:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/644651\/"},"modified":"2026-05-03T07:23:18","modified_gmt":"2026-05-03T07:23:18","slug":"toronto-police-seek-suspect-in-possible-hate-motivated-assault-with-orbeez-type-gun","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/644651\/","title":{"rendered":"Toronto police seek suspect in possible hate-motivated assault with Orbeez-type gun"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/globalnews.ca\/tag\/toronto-police\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Toronto Police<\/a> Service is asking for the public\u2019s help identifying a vehicle linked to a suspected hate-motivated assault in the city\u2019s north end.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/70c8fc80.png\" alt=\"\" style=\"position:absolute;width:1px;height:1px\" referrerpolicy=\"no-referrer-when-downgrade\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Police say the incident happened April 30 in the Bathurst Street and Lawrence Avenue West area, where a suspect in a vehicle allegedly fired an Orbeez-style replica gun at victims who were visibly identifiable members of the Jewish community.<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" width=\"170\" height=\"225\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/1767930311_275_national.jpg\" alt=\"Get daily Canada news delivered to your inbox so you'll never miss the day's top stories.\"\/><\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\tGet daily National news<\/p>\n<p>Get daily Canada news delivered to your inbox so you&#8217;ll never miss the day&#8217;s top stories.<\/p>\n<p>Investigators say the victims suffered minor injuries and the suspect fled the scene in a blue SUV.<\/p>\n<p>The case is being treated as a suspected hate-motivated offence and is being led by the force\u2019s Hate Crime Unit.<\/p>\n<p>\n\t\t\tMore on Crime<br \/>\n\t\t\tMore videos\n\t\t<\/p>\n<p>Police have released video of the vehicle and are asking anyone with information to come forward.<\/p>\n<p>The incident comes as May marks Canadian Jewish Heritage Month, a time recognizing the contributions of Jewish Canadians and celebrating Jewish culture, history and communities across the country.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Toronto Police Service is asking for the public\u2019s help identifying a vehicle linked to a suspected hate-motivated&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":644652,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[49,48,2169,189200,240103,44,79076],"class_list":["post-644651","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-canada","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-crime","tag-hate-crime","tag-jewish-heritage-month","tag-news","tag-toronto-police"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/644651","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=644651"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/644651\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/644652"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=644651"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=644651"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=644651"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}