{"id":825618,"date":"2026-07-25T17:24:22","date_gmt":"2026-07-25T17:24:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/825618\/"},"modified":"2026-07-25T17:24:22","modified_gmt":"2026-07-25T17:24:22","slug":"scarborough-man-charged-with-murder-2-others-wanted-in-fatal-brampton-shooting-last-month","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/825618\/","title":{"rendered":"Scarborough man charged with murder, 2 others wanted in fatal Brampton shooting last month"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>One man is in custody, and police are searching for two other suspects in connection with a fatal shooting in Brampton last month. <\/p>\n<p>Police in Peel Region were called to the Sandalwood Parkway and Crown Victoria Drive area just after 7 p.m. on June 4 for reports of a shooting. A man was found suffering from gunshot wounds and pronounced dead at the scene.<\/p>\n<p>Police have identified the victim as 25-year-old Jamal Edwards of Brampton.<\/p>\n<p>Following an investigation, 24-year-old Bakiram Balakumar of Scarborough\u00a0was arrested on July 21 and charged with first-degree murder. <\/p>\n<p>Investigators say they are also searching for two other suspects who were caught on surveillance video.  <\/p>\n<p>\u201cThey should be considered armed and dangerous,\u201d police said in a release on July 25.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"576\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/brampton-shooting-suspects-1024x576.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-4888661\"  \/>Surveillance photos of two suspects wanted in connection with a fatal shooting on June 4, 2026, in Brampton. PRP\/HO<\/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","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"One man is in custody, and police are searching for two other suspects in connection with a fatal&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":825619,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[194339],"tags":[51759,49,48],"class_list":["post-825618","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-brampton","tag-brampton","tag-ca","tag-canada"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/825618","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=825618"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/825618\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/825619"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=825618"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=825618"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=825618"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}