{"id":717659,"date":"2026-06-05T21:53:10","date_gmt":"2026-06-05T21:53:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/717659\/"},"modified":"2026-06-05T21:53:10","modified_gmt":"2026-06-05T21:53:10","slug":"toronto-police-ask-for-help-to-identify-man-fatally-struck-by-vehicle","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/717659\/","title":{"rendered":"Toronto police ask for help to identify man fatally struck by vehicle"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Toronto police have released a composite sketch of a pedestrian fatally struck by a vehicle on Sunday as they try to identify him.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Police say the pedestrian was crossing Eglinton Avenue West near Old Park Road <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cp24.com\/local\/toronto\/2026\/05\/31\/a-heartbreaking-incident-pedestrian-killed-crossing-road-in-torontos-west-end\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.cp24.com\/local\/toronto\/2026\/05\/31\/a-heartbreaking-incident-pedestrian-killed-crossing-road-in-torontos-west-end\/\">on May 31 before 1:19 a.m.<\/a> when he was struck by a westbound Honda Accord.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" data-chromatic=\"ignore\" alt=\"\" class=\"c-image\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/MWUI2PX3HRDYVGAQUZK2E3JYOM.jpeg\"  width=\"800\" height=\"450\"\/>tps Police investigating after overnight collision in Toronto\u2019s west end early Sunday (CP24 photo). <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">The pedestrian was pronounced dead at the scene, police say.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">The 23-year-old driver of the Honda, police say, remained.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">In a news release on Friday, police said they are still trying to identify the pedestrian, who is described as a Black man, six feet tall, with a slim build, a long grey beard, and long dreadlocks.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Police said he was wearing a red toque, a black Adidas tracksuit jacket with a German football logo, and a blue hooded winter jacket underneath. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Anyone with information on the man\u2019s identity is being asked to contact police at 416-808-1900 or Crime Stoppers anonymously. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Toronto police have released a composite sketch of a pedestrian fatally struck by a vehicle on Sunday as&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":717660,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[712,49,48,44],"class_list":["post-717659","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\/717659","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=717659"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/717659\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/717660"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=717659"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=717659"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=717659"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}