{"id":876143,"date":"2026-08-29T19:20:17","date_gmt":"2026-08-29T19:20:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/876143\/"},"modified":"2026-08-29T19:20:17","modified_gmt":"2026-08-29T19:20:17","slug":"montreal-police-investigate-downtown-assault-salon-fire","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/876143\/","title":{"rendered":"Montreal police investigate downtown assault, salon fire"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Montreal police on Saturday were probing an alleged stabbing of an 18-year-old man downtown and an arson attack on a beauty salon in Villeray. Police have said the incidents are separate.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">In the first, police officers were called to the intersection of Ste-Catherine and Lambert-Closse Sts. around 3:30 a.m. It followed a report that a teenager was injured with a sharp object, according to Caroline Ch\u00e8vrefils, a Montreal police spokesperson.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The teenager was found conscious but with wounds to his lower body, Ch\u00e8vrefils said. He was taken to a hospital, where his injuries were deemed not life-threatening.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Montreal police on Saturday were probing an alleged stabbing of an 18-year-old man downtown and an arson attack&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":876144,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[194292],"tags":[49,48,2338],"class_list":["post-876143","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-montreal","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-montreal"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/876143","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=876143"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/876143\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/876144"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=876143"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=876143"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=876143"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}