71-year-old woman fatally stabbed while loading groceries in apparent ‘unprovoked’ North York attack

A 71-year-old woman was fatally stabbed while she was loading groceries into her vehicle in North York on Thursday morning in what police believe was an unprovoked attack.

Officers were called to a commercial parking lot in the Parkway Forest Drive and Sheppard Avenue East area near Don Mills Road just after 9:30 a.m. for reports of a stabbing. ---More...

BREAKING: A 71-year-old woman, Shahnaz Pestonji, was fatally stabbed in an unprovoked #attack while loading groceries in North York, #Toronto. @CBCNews pic.twitter.com/irYZfsBPiX

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