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Holly Maria Jones (September 14, 1992 – May 12, 2003) [1] was a 10-year-old child abduction and murder victim from Toronto, Ontario, Canada.On May 12, 2003, while walking a friend home, she was kidnapped, sexually assaulted, and strangled by Michael Briere.
Police in Toronto, Canada are opening a hate crime investigation after shots were fired overnight into the window of a Jewish girls’ elementary school – the second time this year the school ...
The Toronto Star is a Canadian English-language broadsheet daily newspaper. It is owned by Toronto Star Newspapers Limited, a subsidiary of Torstar Corporation and part of Torstar's Daily News Brands division. [6] The newspaper was established in 1892 as the Evening Star and was later renamed the Toronto Daily Star in 1900, under Joseph E ...
Pierre Berton, a Toronto Star newspaper columnist wrote in his column that the Bluestein beating was a "semi-execution" committed in front of hundreds of people, which showed that Papalia did not fear the law. [87] Berton made the Bluestein beating into a cause célèbre as he used his column to demand that Papalia be brought to justice. [87]
Toronto Police Service reported that eight teenagers allegedly swarmed Lee over a three-minute period, repeatedly stabbing him. [4] The incident occurred hours before the nearby Vaughan shooting. [4] Bystanders summoned emergency services [4] to just north of Union Station. Lee was transported to a nearby hospital, where he died. [6]
Emanuel Jaques (October 8, 1964 – July 29, 1977) was a Canadian 12-year-old boy who was murdered in Toronto.The sexual assault and murder of Jaques sparked outrage in Toronto, resulting in the conviction of three men: Saul David Betesh, Robert Kribs, and Joseph Woods for murder, and the regeneration of the city's Yonge Street downtown area.
In 1984, Kelly was convicted of the first-degree murder of his wife Jeannette Kelly by throwing her from the 17th floor balcony of The Palace Pier high-rise on Sunday, March 29, 1981, in Toronto, Canada. He stated to police that he had seen his wife on the balcony, reaching out over the rail to investigate a rattle.
The death of Sammy Yatim occurred early in the morning of July 27, 2013, in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. Yatim, an 18-year-old Toronto male armed with a switchblade knife, was shot at nine times, and was hit by eight of the shots fired by 30-year-old Toronto Police Service (TPS) officer James Forcillo. After being shot, while lying on the floor of ...