Homicide
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He Died on September 10 and Peel Waited Fifteen Days to Say So: the Charge Against Lorena Sanchez, 42, Becomes Second-Degree Murder After a Mississauga Stabbing, and the Man She Is Accused of Killing Still Has No Name (September 25, 2026)
Published Friday, September 25, 2026 by Peel Regional Police under occurrence number PR260303362. Investigators from the Homicide and Missing Persons Bureau have upgraded the charge against Lorena Sanchez, 42, of Mississauga to second-degree murder. The underlying incident is not new: on Sunday, September 6, 2026 at approximately 5:30 p.m., officers responded to the area of…
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A Fingerprint Gave Them the First Name in Four Days, and It Belonged to a Man From the Same End of the City Where His Car Was Burned: Toronto Police Identify Marcus Charles, 32, and Say Both Victims Were Targeted (September 25, 2026)
Toronto Police Service news release published Friday, September 25, 2026 at 12:42 p.m. Eastern under case number 2026-1994013, with reporting by Codi Wilson of CTV News Toronto and CP24 updated at 1:10 p.m. Eastern. Follow-up to this site’s earlier September 25, 2026 briefing. One of the two men found dead inside burning vehicles in Scarborough…
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They Were Shot Before the Cars Were Lit: Autopsies Turn the Scarborough and Etobicoke Vehicle Fires Into Two Homicides, and Toronto Police Still Will Not Say the Two Are Connected (September 25, 2026)
First reported Friday, September 25, 2026 at 10:06 a.m. Eastern by Codi Wilson of CTV News Toronto and CP24, updated at 12:43 p.m. Eastern following a Toronto Police Service news conference. Follow-up to this site’s September 24, 2026 briefing. Autopsies have determined that both people found dead inside burning vehicles in Scarborough and Etobicoke on…
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There Was a Body in Each Car: the Homicide Squad Was Notified the Morning of the Scarborough and Etobicoke Vehicle Fires, and the Two Scenes Are Ninety Minutes Apart at Opposite Ends of Toronto (Originally Reported September 22, 2026)
Follow-up to this site’s September 22, 2026 briefing on two overnight vehicle fires in Scarborough and Etobicoke, which recorded no injuries because the early account it was built on carried none. This file was originally reported Tuesday, September 22, 2026 at 6:27 a.m. Eastern by Codi Wilson of CP24 and CTV News Toronto, updated at…
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The Only Release Toronto Police Have Issued on This File Went Out Two Hours and Twenty-Five Minutes After the Bail Hearing It Announces: Raghav Sharma, 27, of Caledon Dies Four Days After a Car-to-Car Shooting and Tahir Mian, 23, Walks In (September 20, 2026)
Toronto Police released case 2026-1926048 to the public at 11:55 a.m. on Sunday, September 20, 2026, seven days after the shooting it describes. Officers were called to the Lawrence Avenue East and Underhill Drive area of North York at approximately 4:22 a.m. on Sunday, September 13, 2026. The Homicide and Missing Persons Unit says the…
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Three Days After the Shots, the Arrest, and the Person Charged Cannot Be Named Either: Toronto Police Charge a Male Youth With Murder in the Death of Cashie Auguste, 17, at Jane and Finch (September 17, 2026)
Published Thursday, September 17, 2026 at 7:09 a.m. Eastern by the Toronto Police Service as an update to the homicide investigation under case number 2026-1936774. A male youth has been arrested and charged with murder in the death of Cashie Auguste, 17, of Toronto, who was shot at approximately 3:34 p.m. on Monday, September 14,…
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Seventeen Hours Passed Between the Shots and the Name, and the Name Is All the Release Contains: Cashie Auguste, 17, Is Toronto’s Twenty-Fourth Homicide of 2026, Shot in Daylight at Jane and Finch (September 15, 2026)
Published Tuesday, September 15, 2026 at 8:30 a.m. Eastern by the Toronto Police Service Homicide and Missing Persons Unit under case number 2026-1936774. On Monday, September 14, 2026, at approximately 3:34 p.m., police responded to a shooting call in the area of Jane Street and Finch Avenue West. Officers located a male victim who had…
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A Body on Crowder Road, an Emergency Response Team on the Scene and a Charge of Indignity to a Body: Grenville OPP Arrest Justin Donovan-Biscope, 35, of Smiths Falls Five Days After Chelsea Swinwood, 37, Was Found (Originally Reported September 3, 2026)
This file was issued by the Grenville County OPP on Thursday, September 3, 2026 and is not a story that broke today. Officers were called to a residence on Crowder Road in Spencerville on Saturday, August 29, 2026, where one person was found deceased. The death was later deemed a homicide and the deceased identified…
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A Wedding Full of Witnesses and a Unit That Says They Have Not Told It Everything: Ottawa’s Homicide Unit Renews Its Appeal Three Years After Two Toronto Men Were Killed Outside the Infinity Convention Centre (September 3, 2026)
The Ottawa Police Service issued this appeal on Thursday, September 3, 2026 at 11:00 a.m. Three years after a shooting outside the Infinity Convention Centre on the 2900 block of Gibford Drive left two men dead and six others injured, the OPS Homicide Unit says the investigation remains open and active and is renewing its…
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Three Court Orders Told Him Not to Touch a Gun and He Pleaded Guilty to Breaching All Three: Nathan Bell, 40, Draws Ten Years and Nine Months for the Moss Park Bus Stop Shooting, After a Jury Acquitted Him of Killing Kyle Provo (August 28, 2026)
First reported Friday, August 28, 2026 at 9:54 p.m. by Global News, in a piece by Catherine McDonald. Nathan Bell of Brampton, now 40, was sentenced by Justice Philip Campbell of the Ontario Superior Court of Justice to ten years and nine months for discharging a firearm with intent to wound at Sherbourne and Dundas…