{"id":78557,"date":"2025-07-20T17:40:09","date_gmt":"2025-07-20T17:40:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/78557\/"},"modified":"2025-07-20T17:40:09","modified_gmt":"2025-07-20T17:40:09","slug":"teen-charged-after-woman-71-fatally-stabbed-in-toronto","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/78557\/","title":{"rendered":"Teen charged after woman, 71, fatally stabbed in Toronto"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Toronto police say a 14-year-old boy has been charged with second-degree murder after a woman in her 70s was <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cp24.com\/local\/toronto\/2025\/07\/17\/simply-just-getting-her-groceries-woman-killed-in-unprovoked-toronto-stabbing-identified\/\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.cp24.com\/local\/toronto\/2025\/07\/17\/simply-just-getting-her-groceries-woman-killed-in-unprovoked-toronto-stabbing-identified\/\">fatally stabbed while loading groceries<\/a> in a commercial plaza earlier this week. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Officers were called to the Parkway Forest Drive and Sheppard Avenue East area at around 9:30 a.m. in North York on Thursday for reports of a stabbing.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Investigators say the victim, identified as 71-year-old Shahnaz Pestonji of Toronto, was attacked in a parking lot before being rushed to hospital, where she later succumb to her injuries.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" data-chromatic=\"ignore\" alt=\"\" class=\"c-image\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/1753033209_17_G5BFO33UBVHDPD6GXWIGGTLKR4.jpg\"  width=\"800\" height=\"450\"\/>Shahnaz Pestonji, 71 Shahnaz Pestonji, 71, is Toronto&#8217;s 22nd homicide victim of the year. (Toronto Police Service handout) <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Police have previously described the incident as \u201cunprovoked\u201d and say the suspect fled the area before officers arrived.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">On Sunday, in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tps.ca\/media-centre\/news-releases\/63526\/\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.tps.ca\/media-centre\/news-releases\/63526\/\">a news release<\/a>, officers say they arrested the 14-year-old in Toronto following what police describe as a \u201ccoordinated effort by multiple units.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">The teen, whose identity is now protected under the Youth Criminal Justice Act, has been charged with second-degree murder. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">\u201cThe name of the Young Person and their photograph can no longer be published\/broadcast,\u201d officials wrote.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">The charges have not been tested in court, but police say he is scheduled to appear this week on Monday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Police continue to investigate this case and are asking anyone with additional information to contact investigators at 416-808-3300 or Crime Stoppers anonymously.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Toronto police say a 14-year-old boy has been charged with second-degree murder after a woman in her 70s&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":78558,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[4717,2147,50],"class_list":{"0":"post-78557","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\/114886791966535601","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/78557","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=78557"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/78557\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/78558"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=78557"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=78557"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=78557"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}