{"id":24332,"date":"2019-07-27T12:41:51","date_gmt":"2019-07-27T16:41:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.newspapers-online.com\/auroran\/?p=24332"},"modified":"2019-08-02T12:15:30","modified_gmt":"2019-08-02T16:15:30","slug":"homicide-investigation-started-after-suspicious-house-fire-on-edward-street","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newspapers-online.com\/auroran\/homicide-investigation-started-after-suspicious-house-fire-on-edward-street\/","title":{"rendered":"Homicide investigation started after suspicious house  fire on Edward Street"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Investigators with the York Regional Police homicide unit are seeking witnesses following a suspicious house fire in Aurora.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">On Saturday, July 27, shortly before 1 a.m., Police and Central York Fire Service was called to a house on Edward Street for a report of a fire.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">When officers arrived, they found the house was fully engulfed.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Shortly after 2 a.m., firefighters had knocked down the fire and were able to enter the home where they located a body, believed to be an adult, deceased.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The Coroner attended the scene and deemed the circumstances of the death suspicious. As a result, officers with the YRP Homicide Unit are leading the ongoing investigation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The deceased has not been identified.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Investigators are appealing to anyone who may have seen or heard anything in the area to please come forward.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Anyone with information is asked to contact the Homicide Unit at 1-866-876-5423 x7865, or email the Homicide Unit at homicide@yrp.ca, or call Crime Stoppers at 1-800-222-TIPS, or leave an anonymous tip online at www.1800222tips.com. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Investigators with the York Regional Police homicide unit are seeking witnesses following a suspicious house fire in Aurora. On Saturday, July 27, shortly before 1 a.m., Police and Central York Fire Service was called to a house on Edward Street for a report of a fire. When officers arrived, they found the house was fully [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":24333,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[26],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-24332","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-archive"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.newspapers-online.com\/auroran\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/yrp.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newspapers-online.com\/auroran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24332","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=24332"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newspapers-online.com\/auroran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24332\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newspapers-online.com\/auroran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/24333"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newspapers-online.com\/auroran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=24332"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newspapers-online.com\/auroran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=24332"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newspapers-online.com\/auroran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=24332"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}