{"id":812424,"date":"2026-07-19T16:07:16","date_gmt":"2026-07-19T16:07:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/812424\/"},"modified":"2026-07-19T16:07:16","modified_gmt":"2026-07-19T16:07:16","slug":"toronto-police-identify-north-york-stabbing-victim-husband-charged-with-1st-degree-murder","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/812424\/","title":{"rendered":"Toronto police identify North York stabbing victim, husband charged with 1st-degree murder"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Toronto police officers say the husband of a 29-year-old woman who was <a href=\"https:\/\/toronto.citynews.ca\/2026\/07\/18\/1-woman-stabbed-in-north-york-police-say\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">fatally stabbed at a North York residence<\/a> has been charged with first-degree murder in connection with her death.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.tps.ca\/media-centre\/news-releases\/66464\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Emergency crews were called to a high-rise on Fairview Mall Drive<\/a>, which is located on the west side of Highway 404 and north of Sheppard Avenue East, just after 2:35 p.m. on Saturday with reports of a person with a knife.<\/p>\n<p>Officers said in a statement that the victim, identified as Thi Nguyen, was found in a hallway with stab wounds. Despite attempting life-saving measures, investigators said Nguyen died at the scene.<\/p>\n<p>The statement said the suspect left the scene before officers arrived.<\/p>\n<p>Investigators said Martin Ly, a 28-year-old Vaughan resident, was later arrested and charged with first-degree murder and failure to comply with an undertaking.<\/p>\n<p>The accused was scheduled to appear in a Toronto bail court Sunday morning.<\/p>\n<p>A police spokesperson told CityNews the victim and the suspect were married, but wouldn\u2019t elaborate on the circumstances surrounding the stabbing.<\/p>\n<p>The allegations haven\u2019t been proven in court.<\/p>\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">News Release \u2013 Man Arrested in Homicide Investigation, Fairview Mall Drive and Don Mills Road area, Victim: Thi Nguyen, 29, Image Released<a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/GDVBsqgZJ3\" rel=\"nofollow\">https:\/\/t.co\/GDVBsqgZJ3<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/Yvo3J5sDwp\" rel=\"nofollow\">pic.twitter.com\/Yvo3J5sDwp<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Toronto Police (@TorontoPolice) <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/TorontoPolice\/status\/2078829655583285730?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" rel=\"nofollow\">July 19, 2026<\/a><\/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\/07\/google-trusted-badge.png\" alt=\"Add as a preferred source on Google\" width=\"198\" height=\"63\"\/><br \/>\n\t\t<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t<script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Toronto police officers say the husband of a 29-year-old woman who was fatally stabbed at a North York&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":812425,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[194291],"tags":[49,48,3302],"class_list":["post-812424","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\/812424","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=812424"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/812424\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/812425"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=812424"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=812424"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=812424"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}