{"id":789979,"date":"2026-07-09T06:50:20","date_gmt":"2026-07-09T06:50:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/789979\/"},"modified":"2026-07-09T06:50:20","modified_gmt":"2026-07-09T06:50:20","slug":"man-28-charged-with-murder-in-scarborough-double-shooting","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/789979\/","title":{"rendered":"Man, 28, charged with murder in Scarborough double shooting"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A 28-year-old man is facing a murder charge following a double shooting in Scarborough that claimed the life of a 32-year-old man.<\/p>\n<p>Toronto police responded to a shooting at Victoria Park Avenue and Highway 401 around 3:15 p.m. on July 6. When they arrived at the scene, they located the body of a man suffering from gunshot wounds. He was later pronounced dead.<\/p>\n<p>The victim has been identified as 32-year-old Levon Byers of Toronto.<\/p>\n<p>Investigators say just before 3:30 p.m., a man was located suffering from gunshot wounds outside a vehicle several blocks north at a plaza on Victoria Park Avenue south of Sheppard Avenue. He was taken to the hospital with life-threatening injuries. His condition has since stabilized. Police say a firearm was located inside the vehicle.<\/p>\n<p>Hakim El Mozazi, 28, of Toronto, has been charged with second-degree murder as well as four other firearms-related offences.<\/p>\n<p>Toronto police tell CityNews the two men were responsible for shooting each other, and there are no other suspects. <\/p>\n<p>\t\tKeep it Factual<\/p>\n<p>Add CityNews Toronto as a trusted source on Google to see more local stories from us.<\/p>\n<p>\t\t<a href=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/preferences\/source?q=toronto.citynews.ca\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><br \/>\n\t\t<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"add-trusted-source-badge\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/google-trusted-badge.png\" alt=\"Add as a preferred source on Google\" width=\"198\" height=\"63\"\/><br \/>\n\t\t<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A 28-year-old man is facing a murder charge following a double shooting in Scarborough that claimed the life&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":789980,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[194291],"tags":[49,48,3302],"class_list":["post-789979","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-toronto","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-toronto"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/789979","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=789979"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/789979\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/789980"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=789979"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=789979"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=789979"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}