{"id":499109,"date":"2026-01-07T14:41:10","date_gmt":"2026-01-07T14:41:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/499109\/"},"modified":"2026-01-07T14:41:10","modified_gmt":"2026-01-07T14:41:10","slug":"homicide-detectives-provide-update-on-fatal-shooting-near-u-of-t-scarborough","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/499109\/","title":{"rendered":"Homicide detectives provide update on fatal shooting near U of T Scarborough"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"c-overline b-overline\" href=\"https:\/\/www.cp24.com\/local\/toronto\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Toronto<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"b-date-custom__date-item\">Published:\u00a0January 07, 2026 at 6:39AM EST<\/p>\n<p>Toronto Police released an image of 20 year-old Shivank Avasthi as the victim in an alleged fatal shooting near the University of Toronto\u2019s Scarborough Campus. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Toronto police will be providing an update Wednesday on the fatal shooting of a 20-year-old man near the University of Toronto\u2019s Scarborough campus last month. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">The shooting<a href=\"https:\/\/www.cp24.com\/local\/toronto\/2025\/12\/24\/police-identify-person-found-dead-on-trail-near-uoft-scarborough-campus\/\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.cp24.com\/local\/toronto\/2025\/12\/24\/police-identify-person-found-dead-on-trail-near-uoft-scarborough-campus\/\"> occurred at around 3:30 p.m. on Dec. 23 <\/a>near Highland Creek Trail and Old Kingston Road. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Police said Shivank Avasthi was pronounced dead at the scene and the suspect fled prior to the arrival of officers.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Wednesday\u2019s<a href=\"https:\/\/www.tps.ca\/media-centre\/news-releases\/64939\/\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.tps.ca\/media-centre\/news-releases\/64939\/\"> news conference<\/a> will be held at 10:30 a.m. at Toronto police headquarters and will be streamed live on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ctvnews.ca\/\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.ctvnews.ca\/\" target=\"_blank\">CTVNews.ca<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cp24.com\/\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.cp24.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">CP24.com<\/a>, the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ctvnews.ca\/app\/\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">CTV News app<\/a>, the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cp24.com\/app\/\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.cp24.com\/app\/\" target=\"_blank\">CP24 app<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Toronto Published:\u00a0January 07, 2026 at 6:39AM EST Toronto Police released an image of 20 year-old Shivank Avasthi as&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":499110,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[4717,2147,50],"class_list":{"0":"post-499109","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-news","8":"tag-apple-news","9":"tag-canada","10":"tag-news"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/115854343217560629","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/499109","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=499109"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/499109\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/499110"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=499109"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=499109"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=499109"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}