{"id":922054,"date":"2026-10-05T23:16:16","date_gmt":"2026-10-05T23:16:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/922054\/"},"modified":"2026-10-05T23:16:16","modified_gmt":"2026-10-05T23:16:16","slug":"victim-identified-in-lawrence-heights-homicide-man-wanted-on-canada-wide-warrant-for-murder","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/922054\/","title":{"rendered":"Victim identified in Lawrence Heights homicide, man wanted on Canada-wide warrant for murder"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A Canada-wide warrant has been issued for a man from Timmins, Ont., who is wanted in connection with a Toronto homicide investigation.<\/p>\n<p>Toronto police were initially called to the Lawrence Heights neighbourhood early Sunday morning for reports of a disturbance inside an apartment building near Flemington Road and Bloomfield Drive.<\/p>\n<p>Once inside the unit, officers located a man with traumatic injuries and performed live-saving measures, but the victim was pronounced dead at the scene.<\/p>\n<p>On Monday, investigators publicly identified the victim as 34-year-old Christopher Gordon of Toronto.<\/p>\n<p>Detectives also identified the suspect as 32-year-old Cody Rudifo of Timmins, Ont. He is wanted on a Canada-wide warrant for first-degree murder.<\/p>\n<p>Authorities said Rudifo is considered to be armed and dangerous.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIf located, do not approach and call 911,\u201d police said.<\/p>\n<p>This is Toronto\u2019s 30th homicide of 2026.<\/p>\n<p>\t\tKeep it Factual<\/p>\n<p>Add CityNews Toronto as a trusted source on Google to see more local stories from us.<\/p>\n<p>\t\t<a href=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/preferences\/source?q=toronto.citynews.ca\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><br \/>\n\t\t<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"add-trusted-source-badge\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/1791242176_217_google-trusted-badge.png\" alt=\"Add as a preferred source on Google\" width=\"198\" height=\"63\"\/><br \/>\n\t\t<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A Canada-wide warrant has been issued for a man from Timmins, Ont., who is wanted in connection with&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":922055,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[194291],"tags":[49,48,3302],"class_list":["post-922054","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-toronto","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-toronto"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/922054","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=922054"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/922054\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/922055"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=922054"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=922054"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=922054"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}