{"id":911901,"date":"2026-09-27T18:44:12","date_gmt":"2026-09-27T18:44:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/911901\/"},"modified":"2026-09-27T18:44:12","modified_gmt":"2026-09-27T18:44:12","slug":"north-york-murder-toronto-man-charged-in-deadly-stabbing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/911901\/","title":{"rendered":"North York murder: Toronto man charged in deadly stabbing"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"c-paragraph\">A 46-year-old man from Toronto has been charged with second-degree murder following a deadly stabbing in North York on Saturday night.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cp24.com\/local\/toronto\/2026\/09\/27\/man-dead-1-person-arrested-after-stabbing-in-north-york\/\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.cp24.com\/local\/toronto\/2026\/09\/27\/man-dead-1-person-arrested-after-stabbing-in-north-york\/\">incident happened at an apartment building on Tangreen Court<\/a>, near Steeles Avenue West and Hilda Avenue, just west of Yonge Street.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Toronto police said they were called to that area just before 8:30 p.m. for a call for a stabbing.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">There, officers found a male victim who had been stabbed.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">In a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tps.ca\/media-centre\/news-releases\/66996\/\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.tps.ca\/media-centre\/news-releases\/66996\/\">follow-up news release<\/a>, police say two people were involved in a physical altercation when one of them stabbed the other.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Life-saving measures were performed on the victim, who was later pronounced dead on scene, they said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">The suspect was arrested at the scene.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Meir Cohen, 46, of Toronto, has been charged with second-degree murder. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">He was scheduled to appear in bail court on Sunday morning. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">The charge Cohen is facing has not been tested in court.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">The victim, who has been described by police as a male in his 50s, will be identified once next-of-kin notifications have been made, they said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">This is Toronto\u2019s 29th homicide of 2026.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">This investigation is ongoing and anyone with further information, including any witnesses or anyone who may have video of this incident, is asked to contact Toronto police at 416-808-3200 or 416-808-7400, or Crime Stoppers anonymously.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A 46-year-old man from Toronto has been charged with second-degree murder following a deadly stabbing in North York&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":911902,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[194291],"tags":[712,49,48,3302],"class_list":["post-911901","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-toronto","tag-apple-news","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-toronto"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/911901","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=911901"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/911901\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/911902"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=911901"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=911901"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=911901"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}