{"id":839908,"date":"2026-08-01T07:22:08","date_gmt":"2026-08-01T07:22:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/839908\/"},"modified":"2026-08-01T07:22:08","modified_gmt":"2026-08-01T07:22:08","slug":"scarborough-senior-dies-after-elevator-incident-tps","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/839908\/","title":{"rendered":"Scarborough senior dies after elevator incident: TPS"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"c-paragraph\">An elderly man has died following an incident with an elevator in Scarborough, according to Toronto Police. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">It happened just after 7:15 p.m. at a home on Rhydwen Avenue. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Toronto Fire tells CP24 they responded to a call for possible entrapment or accident involving an elevator, adding that their elevator rescue team was required when they arrived on scene.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Toronto Fire said one person was rescued and turned over to paramedics for medical attention.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">\u201cWe responded to an unknown trouble call indicating that an in-house elevator had come down on an elderly man,\u201d Const. Viktor Sarudi said in a statement.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Police tell CP24 that when officers arrived at the scene, the man was pronounced dead. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">\u201cI can\u2019t confirm the cause of death whether it was the elevator or other natural causes as it is too early in the investigation,\u201d Sarudi said. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Police said they are not investigating the incident as suspicious.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">This is a developing news story. More details to come&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"An elderly man has died following an incident with an elevator in Scarborough, according to Toronto Police. It&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":839909,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[712,49,48,44],"class_list":["post-839908","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-canada","tag-apple-news","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/839908","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=839908"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/839908\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/839909"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=839908"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=839908"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=839908"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}