{"id":788995,"date":"2026-07-08T20:41:11","date_gmt":"2026-07-08T20:41:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/788995\/"},"modified":"2026-07-08T20:41:11","modified_gmt":"2026-07-08T20:41:11","slug":"toronto-suspect-chased-victim-with-knife-police","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/788995\/","title":{"rendered":"Toronto suspect chased victim with knife: police"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Police are searching for a man who allegedly chased down a victim with a knife and threatened their pet during an altercation in East York last month.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">On June 20 shortly before 2:30 p.m., police responded to reports of a person with a knife in the area of Donlands avenue and Mortimer avenue.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.tps.ca\/media-centre\/news-releases\/66385\/\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.tps.ca\/media-centre\/news-releases\/66385\/\">Police allege<\/a> that there was an altercation between two people, during which the suspect produced a knife and chased the victim and swung the knife at them.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Police said the suspect also allegedly threatened to harm or kill the victim\u2019s pet.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">On Wednesday, police provided a description for the suspect, who is believed to be six feet tall with a thin build, black beard, and black hair. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">He was last seen wearing a grey striped shirt, black sweater, blue jeans, black sunglasses, and grey sneakers with white soles.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Anyone with information is being asked to contact police. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Police are searching for a man who allegedly chased down a victim with a knife and threatened their&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":788996,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[194291],"tags":[712,49,48,3302],"class_list":["post-788995","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\/788995","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=788995"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/788995\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/788996"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=788995"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=788995"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=788995"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}