{"id":98046,"date":"2025-08-26T10:21:11","date_gmt":"2025-08-26T10:21:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/98046\/"},"modified":"2025-08-26T10:21:11","modified_gmt":"2025-08-26T10:21:11","slug":"family-of-teen-found-murdered-at-scarborough-town-centre-speak-out","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/98046\/","title":{"rendered":"Family of teen found murdered at Scarborough Town Centre speak out"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A Scarborough family is in mourning after 19-year-old Daniel Amalathas was fatally shot inside Scarborough Town Centre during broad daylight last Thursday.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/1756110368_560_70c8fc80.png\" alt=\"\" style=\"position:absolute;width:1px;height:1px\" referrerpolicy=\"no-referrer-when-downgrade\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Initially deemed suspicious, Toronto Police confirmed Saturday that Amalaha\u2019s death is being investigated as a targeted killing.<\/p>\n<p>The young man was found with a gunshot wound inside the family washroom near the mall\u2019s food court just before 2 p.m. A firearm was also recovered at the scene.<\/p>\n<p>In the days since, grief has filled the Amalathas family\u2019s Scarborough home.<\/p>\n<p>A collage of photos and fresh flowers now surround their living room, a tribute to the only son they\u2019ve lost so suddenly.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cMy brother was a loving, caring and selfless person,\u201d said Jessica Amalathas, Daniel\u2019s older sister.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHe was a hard worker and very independent\u2026 While he was going to university full-time, he was working three days doing full-time hours. My brother is a very compassionate person, and I miss him very much,\u201d she told Global News.<\/p>\n<p>Story continues below advertisement<\/p>\n<p>Daniel was a second year auto mechanical engineering student at Ontario Tech University. He also worked part-time at Costco.<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" width=\"170\" height=\"225\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/1756110369_865_national.jpg\" alt=\"Get the day's top news, political, economic, and current affairs headlines, delivered to your inbox once a day.\"\/><\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\tGet daily National news<\/p>\n<p>Get the day&#8217;s top news, political, economic, and current affairs headlines, delivered to your inbox once a day.<\/p>\n<p>According to his sister, he had told her he was heading to the mall Thursday morning. She had no idea it would be the last time she saw him alive.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt doesn\u2019t make sense. He left for the mall. He was going to come back,\u201d Jessica said.<\/p>\n<p>She added that her brother had no known enemies and the family has no idea why anyone would harm him.<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" class=\"c-video__image\" alt=\"Click to play video: 'Man killed in daytime shooting inside Toronto shopping mall'\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/FATALSCARBOROUGHSHOOTINGKEVINSTILL.jpg\" loading=\"lazy\"   data-\/><\/p>\n<p>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t1:46<br \/>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tMan killed in daytime shooting inside Toronto shopping mall\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>\n\t\tTrending Now\n\t<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t<a href=\"https:\/\/globalnews.ca\/news\/11348922\/mushroom-poisoning-survivor-ian-wilkinson-australia-erin-patterson-trial\/\" class=\"c-posts__inner\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" class=\"c-posts__thumbnail\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/Untitled-design-69.png\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"336\" height=\"224\" alt=\"\"\/><\/p>\n<p>\n\t\t\t\t\tSole mushroom poisoning survivor says Erin Patterson left him \u2018half alive\u2019\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t<a href=\"https:\/\/globalnews.ca\/news\/11348144\/retaliatory-tariffs-removed-items-cheaper-canada\/\" class=\"c-posts__inner\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" class=\"c-posts__thumbnail\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/1756203671_692_orange-juice.jpg\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"336\" height=\"224\" alt=\"\"\/><\/p>\n<p>\n\t\t\t\t\tWith retaliatory tariffs removed, a look at items that will be cheaper for Canadians\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t<\/a><\/p>\n<p>His mother, Judy Basil, said the 20-year-old had made casual plans for the rest of the day, including washing his car.<\/p>\n<p>When she and Daniel\u2019s father drove past the mall that afternoon and saw first responders, they never imagined the scene involved their son.<\/p>\n<p>Story continues below advertisement<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI was so shocked. I can\u2019t believe it. I can\u2019t imagine my son,\u201d she said. \u201cYou know he\u2019s very kind. He\u2019s loving. He\u2019s a church-going boy.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The family says they were disturbed by how police initially handled the situation.<\/p>\n<p>The mall remained open during the investigation, with only the area around the family washroom cordoned off.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI feel they should have done a lockdown. Because my brother got hurt and who\u2019s next?\u201d said Jessica. \u201cThere\u2019s multiple people at the mall.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>According to Toronto Police Acting Inspector Baheer Sarvanandan, officers secured the area quickly upon arrival, shortly after the incident.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAs soon as officers arrived, they find the confined area and the firearm was located and based on preliminary investigation, we deemed it to be safe,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>Still, the family says they\u2019re concerned that whoever is responsible may still be at large, and that the public could remain at risk.<\/p>\n<p>Police are asking anyone with information to contact authorities.<\/p>\n<p>\n\t\t\tMore on Crime<br \/>\n\t\t\tMore videos\n\t\t<\/p>\n<p>\n\t\t&amp;copy 2025 Global News, a division of Corus Entertainment Inc.\t<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A Scarborough family is in mourning after 19-year-old Daniel Amalathas was fatally shot inside Scarborough Town Centre during&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":98047,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[49,48,2169,57011,21333,44,57012],"class_list":{"0":"post-98046","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-canada","8":"tag-ca","9":"tag-canada","10":"tag-crime","11":"tag-fatal-shooting","12":"tag-homicide","13":"tag-news","14":"tag-toronto-police-service"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/98046","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=98046"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/98046\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/98047"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=98046"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=98046"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=98046"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}