{"id":782234,"date":"2026-07-05T17:52:25","date_gmt":"2026-07-05T17:52:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/782234\/"},"modified":"2026-07-05T17:52:25","modified_gmt":"2026-07-05T17:52:25","slug":"taste-of-lawrence-2-teens-charged-after-late-night-stabbing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/782234\/","title":{"rendered":"Taste of Lawrence: 2 teens charged after late-night stabbing"},"content":{"rendered":"

Updated:\u00a0July 05, 2026 at 1:02PM EDT<\/p>\n

Published:\u00a0July 05, 2026 at 7:46AM EDT<\/p>\n

Two teenagers have been arrested following a stabbing at a street festival in Scarborough. <\/p>\n

A 17-year-old boy has been stabbed during an altercation at the Scarborough Taste of Lawrence street festival Saturday night, which later led to the arrest of two 16-year-old boys.<\/p>\n

In a news release<\/a>, Toronto police say they were called to the area of Lawrence Avenue East and Birchmount Road at about 10:30 p.m. for reports of a stabbing.<\/p>\n

Police allege the 17-year-old victim encountered the two accused teens and their group of friends at the festival. <\/p>\n

\"\"TPS Police investigating a stabbing left teen boys with injuries in Scarborough on Friday July 5, 2026 (CP24 photo). <\/p>\n

Investigators say between 10 and 15 suspects approached the victim and became involved in a \u201cphysical altercation\u201d where someone then took out a knife and stabbed the victim. <\/p>\n

Police say the victim and one of the accused were both taken to hospital with non-life-threatening injuries. Police also confirmed the accused and the victim are known to each other.<\/p>\n

\"\"TPS Police investigating a stabbing left teen boys with injuries in Scarborough on Friday July 5, 2026 (CP24 photo). <\/p>\n

As a result of the scuffle and investigation, police charged two 16-year-old boys from Toronto who cannot be named under the Youth Criminal Justice Act.<\/p>\n

However both are charged with assault causing bodily harm, assault with a weapon and disobeying an order of the court.<\/p>\n

Anyone with information is asked to contact Toronto police.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Updated:\u00a0July 05, 2026 at 1:02PM EDT Published:\u00a0July 05, 2026 at 7:46AM EDT Two teenagers have been arrested following…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":782026,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[194291],"tags":[712,49,48,3302],"class_list":["post-782234","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-toronto","tag-apple-news","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-toronto"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/782234","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=782234"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/782234\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/782026"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=782234"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=782234"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=782234"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}