{"id":1423,"date":"2013-04-15T19:20:15","date_gmt":"2013-04-15T23:20:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.newspapers-online.com\/auroran\/?p=1423"},"modified":"2013-04-23T12:39:31","modified_gmt":"2013-04-23T16:39:31","slug":"woman-continues-fight-for-life","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newspapers-online.com\/auroran\/woman-continues-fight-for-life\/","title":{"rendered":"Woman continues to fight for life (Updated)"},"content":{"rendered":"

By Brock Weir<\/strong><\/p>\n

A 32-year-old Aurora woman remains fighting for her life in hospital following a domestic assault Friday night.<\/p>\n

The woman\u2019s husband, 46-year-old Mohammed Mahdi, has been charged with attempted murder following the incident at a home on Lewis Honey Drive at Conover Avenue.<\/p>\n

\u201cShe is still in critical condition at Sunnybrook Hospital and the hospital is doing everything that is necessary to keep her alive,\u201d said Detective Bob Papineau of the York Regional Police\u2019s Homicide Investigation Unit. \u201cI\u2019ll leave the definition of critical care up to the specialists.\u201d<\/p>\n

York Regional Police received a 911 call at 8.12 p.m. on Friday reporting a domestic situation at the home near Bayview and St. John\u2019s Sideroad. Police arrived at the scene by 8.17 p.m.<\/p>\n

The morning after the incident, Inspector Gary Miner said in a statement they found the victim unresponsive with signs of head trauma. She was first taken to Southlake Regional Health Centre before being transferred to Sunnybrook.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe\u2019re hoping against hope for her,\u201d Inspector Miner told The Auroran. \u201cWe\u2019re hoping the medical intervention takes hold, but [as for] the quality of life, we don\u2019t know what is going to happen there. <\/p>\n

\u201cWe responded to a 911 call from a male caller and there were interpreters needed. We got there very quickly but the situation was not a mystery once we got there. She needed immediate medical help, [Mahdi] was apprehended and has now been charged with her attempted murder.\u201d<\/p>\n

He was taken at the scene and transported to One District Headquarters in Newmarket where police say he was questioned and charged with one count of attempted murder. He was remanded into custody after a brief court appearance on Saturday morning and appeared once again before the courts Tuesday. Appearing with his Dari interpreter, Mr. Mahdi’s bail hearing was put off until Friday pending his application for legal aid.<\/p>\n

\u201cFor the charges he is charged with, he is remanded until he can get bail, if he even qualifies for bail,\u201d said Inspector Miner shortly after the incident.<\/p>\n

He added it was hoped a clearer picture of the victim\u2019s condition would emerge over the weekend to determine her chances of survival.<\/p>\n

\u201cIf she deteriorates further and succumbs, then the charge will be upgraded,\u201d he said. <\/p>\n

Police have not released the victim\u2019s name. <\/p>\n

Victim Services of York Region have been called in to assist the family members with the crisis. The family, according to Detective Papineau, has asked for privacy on who else was in the home at the time of the incident. <\/p>\n

The home where the attack took place was previously known to the police, having been called there for situations in the past, but they could not confirm whether the calls involved the same family as a different last name had been involved. <\/p>\n

\u201c[Previous calls were for] nothing insurmountable and nothing that would [seem to] say we would be coming back for something like this,\u201d added Inspector Miner.
\nIn the days following the attack, the home was sealed pending a search warrant. By Monday, the home had been opened for police to continue their investigations and by the afternoon searches were still taking place inside the dwelling for any evidence that will aid in their investigations. <\/p>\n

Police ask anyone with information on the case to call the York Regional Police Homicide Unit at 1-866-846-5423 x. 6630, or leave an anonymous tip by calling Crime Stoppers at 1-800-222-TIPS (8477), going online at www.1800222tips.com, or texting their tip to CRIMES (274637) starting with the word YORK.<\/p>\n\"Facebook\"<\/a>\"twitter\"<\/a>\"mail\"<\/a>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

By Brock Weir A 32-year-old Aurora woman remains fighting for her life in hospital following a domestic assault Friday night. The woman\u2019s husband, 46-year-old Mohammed Mahdi, has been charged with attempted murder following the incident at a home on Lewis Honey Drive at Conover Avenue. \u201cShe is still in critical condition at Sunnybrook Hospital and […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":1424,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[26],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1423","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-archive"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.newspapers-online.com\/auroran\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/2013-04-16-03.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p3D2k4-mX","publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-06-22 11:34:02","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newspapers-online.com\/auroran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1423","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newspapers-online.com\/auroran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newspapers-online.com\/auroran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newspapers-online.com\/auroran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newspapers-online.com\/auroran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1423"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newspapers-online.com\/auroran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1423\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newspapers-online.com\/auroran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1424"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newspapers-online.com\/auroran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1423"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newspapers-online.com\/auroran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1423"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newspapers-online.com\/auroran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1423"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}