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Crime in Toronto has been low in comparison to other major cities. In 2024, a ranking of 60 large cities by The Economist ranked Toronto as the 6th safest major city in the world, and the safest major city in North America. [ 1] In the same year, CEOWORLD magazine, which includes some major medium-sized cities, ranked Toronto as the 160th ...
2010–2017 Toronto serial homicides. Between 2010 and 2017, a total of eight men disappeared from the neighbourhood of Church and Wellesley, the LGBTQ village of Toronto, Ontario, Canada. The investigation into the disappearances, taken up by two successive police task forces, eventually led to Bruce McArthur, a 66-year-old self-employed ...
Ken Lee, a 59-year-old man, was fatally stabbed outside the Strathcona Hotel, on York Street, Toronto, at 12:17 am on December 18, 2022. Eight teenage girls were charged with his murder. The alleged perpetrators are suspected of two prior violent incidents also in downtown Toronto the same evening and are understood by police to have associated ...
A mass shooting occurred on Danforth Avenue in the Greektown neighbourhood of Toronto, Ontario, Canada on the night of July 22, 2018. [ 5] Faisal Hussain killed two people and wounded thirteen using a Smith & Wesson M&P .40-calibre handgun. [ 2][ 3] He died by suicide after a shootout with Toronto Police Service (TPS) officers. [ 6]
The following is a list of unsolved murders in Canada.Hundreds of homicides occur across Canada each year, many of which end up as cold cases. [1] In 2021, the country's intentional homicide rate stood at around 2.06 per 100,000 individuals, [2] increasing for the third consecutive year. [3]
Span of crimes. c. July 2012 – May 6, 2013. Country. Canada. Date apprehended. May 11, 2013 (Millard), May 22, 2013 (Smich) Dellen Millard (born August 30, 1985) and Mark Smich (born August 13, 1987) are two Canadian convicted murderers from Toronto, Ontario, who together murdered Laura Babcock and Tim Bosma in separate killings in July 2012 ...
Murder of Tess Richey. Tess Richey (30 November 1994 – 25 November 2017) was a Canadian woman who was killed after a Friday night out with a friend in the Church and Wellesley neighbourhood of Toronto. Four days after she had disappeared, her body was discovered by her mother at the bottom of an outdoor stairwell two houses from where she was ...
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 ...