TORONTO — A third 16-year-old boy has been charged with first-degree murder after a 14-year-old boy was fatally stabbed last month in Toronto's east end.

Toronto police said paramedics responded to reports of a stabbing shortly after 10 p.m. on July 5 in the area of Eastern Avenue and Woodward Avenue. The victim, identified by police and his family as 14-year-old Abdoul Aziz Sarr, was found near a fast-food restaurant and taken to hospital, where he was pronounced dead.

Two 16-year-old boys separately turned themselves in to police in July and have been charged with first-degree murder in the case.

Police said a third 16-year-old boy turned himself in on Friday and now faces the same charge.

A community centre in Toronto's east end has called the fatal stabbing of Sarr a "senseless act

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