{"id":80247,"date":"2025-08-19T03:38:09","date_gmt":"2025-08-19T03:38:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/80247\/"},"modified":"2025-08-19T03:38:09","modified_gmt":"2025-08-19T03:38:09","slug":"teen-arrested-in-leslieville-hit-and-run-toronto-police","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/80247\/","title":{"rendered":"Teen arrested in Leslieville hit-and-run: Toronto police"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Toronto police say they\u2019ve arrested a teenage boy in connection with a hit-and-run in the Leslieville neighbourhood in May.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">CTV News Toronto <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ctvnews.ca\/toronto\/article\/video-shows-moment-pedestrian-struck-in-leslieville-hit-and-run\/ \" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.ctvnews.ca\/toronto\/article\/video-shows-moment-pedestrian-struck-in-leslieville-hit-and-run\/ \">obtained video of the May 19 incident<\/a>, which they said occurred near Queen Street East and Jones Avenue shortly before midnight.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">The surveillance footage showed the victim crossing Queen in the crosswalk when what looks like a white-coloured sedan turned left onto the street from Jones and struck the pedestrian.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">The driver then fled the scene in the vehicle.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">A 34-year-old man who was hit was taken to the hospital with life-threatening injuries.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">In a release on Monday, police said they arrested a 17-year-old male from Richmond Hill. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">He has been charged with two counts of dangerous operation causing bodily harm and leaving an accident scene causing bodily harm.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">The youth can\u2019t be identified under the provisions of the Youth Criminal Justice Act.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Police did not provide an update on the victim\u2019s condition.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Toronto police say they\u2019ve arrested a teenage boy in connection with a hit-and-run in the Leslieville neighbourhood in&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":80248,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[712,43,44,41,39,42,40],"class_list":{"0":"post-80247","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-headlines","8":"tag-apple-news","9":"tag-headlines","10":"tag-news","11":"tag-top-news","12":"tag-top-stories","13":"tag-topnews","14":"tag-topstories"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/80247","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=80247"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/80247\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/80248"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=80247"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=80247"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=80247"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}