{"id":89738,"date":"2025-08-22T22:20:05","date_gmt":"2025-08-22T22:20:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/89738\/"},"modified":"2025-08-22T22:20:05","modified_gmt":"2025-08-22T22:20:05","slug":"girl-arrested-after-scarborough-stabbing-leaves-woman-in-80s-with-life-threatening-injuries-police","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/89738\/","title":{"rendered":"Girl arrested after Scarborough stabbing leaves woman in 80s with life-threatening injuries: police"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A girl under the age of 18\u00a0is in custody after a woman in her late 80s was stabbed in a Scarborough home on Friday, Toronto police say.<\/p>\n<p>The stabbing happened in a residence\u00a0in the area of McCowan Road and\u00a0Sheppard Avenue E. Officers were called to the home for a report of a stabbing\u00a0at about 1:40 p.m.<\/p>\n<p>When officers arrived, they found the woman suffering from significant injuries. She was taken to hospital, where she remains in life-threatening condition.<\/p>\n<p>Acting Insp. Brian Maslowski, spokesperson for the Toronto Police Service,\u00a0told reporters near the scene that\u00a0the girl was arrested a short distance from the home without incident.<\/p>\n<p>Both suspect and victim lived in the residence, but he declined to comment on the\u00a0nature of their relationship.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We are not looking for any additional suspects,&#8221;\u00a0Maslowski\u00a0said. <\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It&#8217;s very tragic and our thoughts go out to the family. I can&#8217;t even imagine the heartbreak dealing with such a significant incident.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Anyone with information is urged to come forward to police.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A girl under the age of 18\u00a0is in custody after a woman in her late 80s was stabbed&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":89739,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[43,44,41,39,42,40],"class_list":["post-89738","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headlines","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\/89738","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=89738"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/89738\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/89739"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=89738"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=89738"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=89738"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}