{"id":850997,"date":"2026-08-08T20:18:17","date_gmt":"2026-08-08T20:18:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/850997\/"},"modified":"2026-08-08T20:18:17","modified_gmt":"2026-08-08T20:18:17","slug":"queen-west-murder-toronto-man-charged-with-first-degree-murder","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/850997\/","title":{"rendered":"Queen West Murder: Toronto man charged with first-degree murder"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Abdul Ghafoori, 32, has been arrested and charged with the 2025 murder of his intimate partner, Himanshi Khurana, following a nationwide manhunt. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">A 32-year-old man from Toronto has been arrested and charged with first-degree murder after a missing woman\u2019s body was found inside a west-end home late last year.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Toronto police said on Dec. 20, 2025, at around 6:30 am., officers working on an missing persons investigation located a deceased woman inside a residence in the Queen West neighbourhood, near Strachan Avenue and Wellington Street West.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" data-chromatic=\"ignore\" alt=\"\" class=\"c-image\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/NXBHF5MMWFCSVBL54F5HIDTH3A.jpeg\"  width=\"800\" height=\"450\"\/>Queen West homicide Dec. 20, 2025 Toronto police investigate a homicide on Dec. 21, 2025 in the city\u2019s Queen West neighbourhood,    near Strachan Avenue and Wellington Street West. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">The woman\u2019s death was subsequently <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ctvnews.ca\/toronto\/article\/toronto-police-investigating-homicide-in-queen-west-neighbourhood\/\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.ctvnews.ca\/toronto\/article\/toronto-police-investigating-homicide-in-queen-west-neighbourhood\/\">classified as a homicide<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Police said the victim and the suspect were \u201cknown to each other,\u201d previously stating that they were in an \u201cintimate partner relationship.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">The victim has been identified as 30-year-old Himanshi Khurana, of Toronto. She is the city\u2019s 40th homicide of 2025.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">At that time, investigators announced that 32-year-old Abdul Ghafoori, of Toronto, was <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cp24.com\/local\/toronto\/2025\/12\/22\/canada-wide-warrant-issued-in-queen-west-homicide-case\/\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.cp24.com\/local\/toronto\/2025\/12\/22\/canada-wide-warrant-issued-in-queen-west-homicide-case\/\">wanted on a Canada-wide warrant<\/a> for first-degree murder in connection with Khurana\u2019s death and released an image of him.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">In an Aug. 8 news release, Toronto police said members of their Fugitive Squad and Homicide and Missing Persons Unit liaised with national and international policing partners to facilitate the suspect\u2019s return to Canada.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Ghafoori was located and arrested on Aug. 7, police said. He has been charged with first-degree murder. The charge has not been tested in court.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">He was scheduled to appear in bail court on Saturday morning. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">This investigation is ongoing and anyone with further information is asked to contact Toronto police at 416-808-7400 or Crime Stoppers anonymously.<\/p>\n<p>Related Stories<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Abdul Ghafoori, 32, has been arrested and charged with the 2025 murder of his intimate partner, Himanshi Khurana,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":850998,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[712,43,44,41,39,42,40],"class_list":["post-850997","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headlines","tag-apple-news","tag-headlines","tag-news","tag-top-news","tag-top-stories","tag-topnews","tag-topstories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/850997","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=850997"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/850997\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/850998"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=850997"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=850997"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=850997"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}