Homicide
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Twenty-Five Hours After He Was Killed, the Man Stabbed to Death at 15 Tangreen Court Has a Name, and He Did Not Live in Toronto: Albert Gundran, 57, of Vaughan, Identified by a Broadcaster at Twenty-Four Minutes to Ten on a Sunday Night (September 27, 2026)
Follow-up to this site’s September 27, 2026 briefing naming Meir Cohen. The one gap that briefing left open has closed. The man stabbed to death inside the apartment building at 15 Tangreen Court in North York on the night of Saturday, September 26, 2026 is Albert Gundran, 57. He is described as being of Vaughan,…
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One Car Was Rented and the Other Was Stolen: Toronto Police Name Mohamud Kheyre, 30, as the Second Man Shot Dead and Burned, Six Days After the Fires, and Still Will Not Say the Two Killings Are One File (September 27, 2026)
Follow-up to this site’s September 25, 2026 briefing identifying Marcus Charles. The second man found shot dead inside a burning vehicle in Toronto has been identified as Mohamud Kheyre, 30, in a Toronto Police Service release published Sunday, September 27, 2026 at 2:53 p.m. Eastern under case number 2026-1994013, with an image released. Six days…
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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)
Follow-up to this site’s two earlier briefings on the fatal stabbing at 15 Tangreen Court in North York. Every gap those briefings recorded has now closed except one. Meir Cohen, 46, of Toronto has been charged with second-degree murder. He was arrested at the scene on the night of Saturday, September 26, 2026, and was…
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The Silence Ended at Nine Forty-Nine on Sunday Morning and the Release Still Cannot Be Read: Toronto Police Publish a Homicide Arrest at Steeles and Hilda Under Case 2026-2032061, Thirteen Hours After a Man Was Killed at 15 Tangreen Court, and No Charge Has Reached the Public Anywhere (September 27, 2026)
Follow-up to this site’s September 26, 2026 briefing on the fatal stabbing at 15 Tangreen Court in North York. Toronto Police Service news release published Sunday, September 27, 2026 at 9:49 a.m. Eastern under case number 2026-2032061, headed Man Arrested in Homicide Investigation, Steeles Avenue West and Hilda Avenue area. Two things the earlier briefing…
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On Monday They Were Searching for a Suspect; by Friday There Was Nobody Left to Search For: Toronto Police Name Karen Swatogor, 72, Shot Dead in a Providence Healthcare Parking Lot, and Say the Second Person Killed Beside Her Was Her Husband (Originally Reported September 25, 2026)
Originally reported Friday, September 25, 2026. This is not a story that broke today. The Toronto Police Service published a news release that afternoon at 2:58 p.m. Eastern under case number 2026-1989483 naming Karen Swatogor, 72, as a victim of the Monday, September 21, 2026 shooting near Warden Avenue and St. Clair Avenue East in…
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The Arrest Was Made at the Scene, and the Force Has Still Not Published a Word: a Man Is Stabbed to Death at 15 Tangreen Court in North York on a Saturday Evening and Nobody Has Said What the Person in Custody Is Charged With (September 26, 2026)
First reported Saturday, September 26, 2026 at 8:59 p.m. Eastern by Bryann Aguilar of CTV News Toronto and CP24, updated at 10:05 p.m. Eastern the same night. Toronto police were called to 15 Tangreen Court in North York, near Yonge Street and Steeles Avenue West, shortly before 8:30 p.m. on Saturday, September 26, 2026. A…
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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…