{"id":837348,"date":"2026-07-31T03:45:09","date_gmt":"2026-07-31T03:45:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/837348\/"},"modified":"2026-07-31T03:45:09","modified_gmt":"2026-07-31T03:45:09","slug":"parole-denied-for-man-who-killed-toronto-police-officer-in-1994","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/837348\/","title":{"rendered":"Parole denied for man who killed Toronto police officer in 1994"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"c-paragraph\">TORONTO \u2014 A man who killed a Toronto police officer more than three decades ago has again been denied parole.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">The Toronto Police Association says it\u2019s pleased that Clinton Gayle was rejected in his bid for day parole, his fourth attempt at release.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">According to the Toronto police website, C<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">onst. Todd Baylis and his partner were chasing down a drug trafficking suspect in June 1994 when the suspect fired at Baylis, hitting the 25-year-old in the head.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">The union says Const. Mike Leone was seriously injured after being shot as well. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Gayle was found guilty of first-degree murder and attempted murder and sentenced to life in prison with no parole eligibility for 25 years.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">He is serving his life sentence at a minimum-security prison in British Columbia.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">This report by The Canadian Press was first published July 30, 2026.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">The Canadian Press<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"TORONTO \u2014 A man who killed a Toronto police officer more than three decades ago has again been&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":837349,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[49,48,713,44,11867],"class_list":["post-837348","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-canada","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-justice","tag-news","tag-ontario-quebec"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/837348","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=837348"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/837348\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/837349"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=837348"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=837348"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=837348"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}