Toronto Police Service
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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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Nobody Has a Description of the Man Who Fired, and the Force Has Published Nothing At All: a Man Is Shot at Neilson Road and Wickson Trail in Scarborough at Twenty-One Minutes Past Nine on a Friday Night (September 25, 2026)
First reported Friday, September 25, 2026 at 9:45 p.m. Eastern by Bryann Aguilar of CTV News Toronto and CP24, updated at 10:20 p.m. Eastern the same night. Toronto police were called to Neilson Road and Wickson Trail, north of Sheppard Avenue East, in Scarborough at 9:21 p.m. on Friday, September 25, 2026 and found an…
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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 Same Address Burned at Roughly the Same Hour Two Years Ago and the Only Thing Police Will Say Is That It Is Too Early: Fire Breaks Out at the Hells Angels Retail Store on Carlaw Avenue at Twenty-Two Minutes Past Six in the Morning (September 23, 2026)
Reported Wednesday, September 23, 2026 at 8:17 a.m. EDT by Phil Tsekouras of CP24 and CTV News Toronto. Toronto Fire was called to 98 Carlaw Avenue, south of Eastern Avenue in Leslieville, at approximately 6:22 a.m. and found flames visible on arrival. The building is the Hells Angels retail store, opened at that address in…
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Two People Shot at Half Past Twelve on a Monday Afternoon, and Twenty-Four Minutes Later the Entire Public Record Ran to Six Sentences: Toronto Police Search for a Suspect Near Warden and St. Clair and Have Published No Release (September 21, 2026)
Reported Monday, September 21, 2026 at 12:54 p.m. EDT by Codi Wilson of CTV News Toronto and CP24, and updated at 1:12 p.m. EDT. Two people were shot near Warden Avenue and St. Clair Avenue East in Scarborough at around 12:30 p.m. Both were located at the scene by police suffering from gunshot wounds. The…
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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,…