The Charge Is Second-Degree Murder and the Man Accused Is Forty-Six Years Old: Meir Cohen of Toronto Is Named Over the Killing at 15 Tangreen Court, and the Force Published Its Victim Identification Seven Hours After Its Arrest Release (September 27, 2026)

The man arrested inside the Newtonbrook apartment building on Saturday night has a name, an age, a city and a charge, and all four arrived on Sunday from a broadcaster rather than from the force that made the arrest. Meir Cohen, 46, of Toronto is charged with second-degree murder. He was taken into custody at the scene and was scheduled to go before a justice in bail court on Sunday morning. The killing that put him there took place at approximately 8:30 p.m. on Saturday, September 26, 2026, inside 15 Tangreen Court near Steeles Avenue West and Hilda Avenue; police describe it as a physical altercation, and say the man stabbed — a man in his fifties — was pronounced dead where he was found. It is the twenty-ninth homicide recorded in Toronto this year. The Toronto Police Service has since issued a second release on the file, at 4:55 p.m. Eastern, saying it has identified him and released his image. That release will not open.

The charge, and the four facts that came with it

Second-degree murder is the charge, which is a statement about what investigators believe they can prove on intent and planning and nothing else. It is not a lesser finding about the killing; it is the count the Crown has elected to proceed on at this stage, and the classification of a homicide charge can move in either direction as a file develops.

The accused is named as Meir Cohen, he is 46, and he is described as a Toronto resident. He did not have to be found. He was arrested at the scene, which is the earliest and most evidentially straightforward kind of homicide arrest there is, and it is the reason the seventeen hours this file spent without a published charge were hard to account for.

Three details of the killing itself also reached the record for the first time. The stabbing happened at approximately 8:30 p.m., a time nothing published earlier had fixed. Police characterise what happened as a physical altercation, which is the first description of the circumstances of the death from any source. And the man who died was in his fifties — the first fact of any kind about him beyond his sex.

Twenty-nine homicides, and a number that had been missing

The death is Toronto’s twenty-ninth homicide of 2026. That number matters here for a procedural reason as much as a statistical one: the earlier briefings on this file recorded that no homicide number had been attached to the death at all, which is unusual four days into a killing that the Homicide and Missing Persons Unit had been notified about on the night it happened. The count is now on the record.

For scale, the two men found shot in burning cars at opposite ends of the city on September 21 and 22 are Toronto’s twenty-seventh and twenty-eighth homicides of the year. Three of the city’s twenty-nine homicides in 2026, in other words, happened inside six days.

The second release will not open either

At 4:55 p.m. Eastern on Sunday, September 27, the Toronto Police Service published a further item under case number 2026-2032061, headed as an update to the arrest release and describing itself as identifying the victim and releasing his image. Its headline, date, time and case number can be read on the force’s own site. Its body cannot — the same failure this site recorded against the 9:49 a.m. release earlier the same day, now repeated on the release that carries the dead man’s name.

So the name exists, the force says it has published it, and it has not reached the public. No outlet has carried the identification. Nine hours after the force announced it had identified him, and more than twenty hours after his death, the man killed at 15 Tangreen Court is still nameless in the whole of the readable public record. He is not named in this briefing because no source available to it names him.

What the charge does not tell you

A named accused and a count of second-degree murder do not answer the questions that decide whether a killing belongs to this beat at all. Nothing published says whether Cohen and the man he is accused of killing knew each other, whether either lived in the building, what the altercation was about, what weapon was used or whether it was recovered, whether anyone else was present, or whether Cohen was on any form of release or order at the time.

No police release and no report has named a criminal organization, a street gang or an outlaw motorcycle club in connection with this killing, and none is named here. A fatal stabbing in an apartment building in North York is on this beat because of where it happened, not because anybody has said it is organized crime.

The man killed at 15 Tangreen Court is not named in this briefing because no readable source names him. The Toronto Police Service states that it has identified him and released his image; the body of that release does not render to a plain reader of the force’s website, and no outlet has carried the name. It will be folded in on a later run. No criminal organization, street gang or outlaw motorcycle club has been named by police in connection with this killing. The charge against Meir Cohen has not been tested in court; he is presumed innocent, and no outcome of his bail appearance has been published.