![Man, 46, charged with murder in deadly North York stabbing Man, 46, charged with murder in deadly North York stabbing](https://news5alert.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/03/weston-rd-stabbing-1.jpg?quality=5&strip=all&h=96&sig=npc6Lv6IqHvvaibJ3Z0KSQ)
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A 46-year-old man is accused of stabbing a 32-year-old man to death in North York on Friday morning.
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Toronto Police say officers responded to a call for a person with a knife outside of 3101 Weston Rd. – a highrise at Sheppard Ave. W. – just before 7 a.m.
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“It is alleged that there was an altercation between two men out front of a residential building,” Cons. Laura Brabant said in a statement released Saturday. “One man was stabbed with a sharp edged weapon during the altercation.”
She said the gravely injured man was rushed to hospital where he was pronounced dead a short time later.
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The victim has now been identified as Dimitri Smith, 32, of Toronto.
A suspect, also a Toronto resident, was arrested at the scene.
Dean Joel Constance, 46, of Toronto, is charged with first-degree murder.
![Toronto Police at the scene of a fatal stabbing at 3101 Weston Rd. in Toronto on Friday, March 29, 2024.](https://smartcdn.gprod.postmedia.digital/torontosun/wp-content/uploads/2024/03/weston-rd-stabbing-2.jpg?quality=90&strip=all&w=288&sig=7eV9_-kjHMVXwUAozdb9jg)
Police have said investigators believe the two men knew each other.
Anyone with information regarding the city’s 18th murder of the year is urged to call the Homicide Unit at 416-808-7400 or Crime Stoppers anonymously at 1-800-222-TIPS (8477).
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