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Wednesday 25 July 2018

Officials: no risk to national security in Toronto rampage

By ROB GILLIES said he would not specu-
TAMARA LUSH late on the motive for Sun-
Associated Press day's attack. "We do not
TORONTO (AP) — Canadi- know why this has hap-
an investigators said Tues- pened yet," he said. "It's go-
day there was no national ing to take some time."
security risk following the Among those killed, was
mass shooting that killed 18-year-old Reese Fallon, a
two people and wound- recent high school gradu-
ed 13, as they continued ate who volunteered for
to probe the life of the Canada's Liberal Party and
29-year-old gunman for was to attend McMaster
clues to what prompted University in the fall. Of-
the deadly rampage in a ficials did not identify the
popular Toronto neighbor- other fatality, a 10-year-old
hood. girl, or name any of the 13
The assailant, Faisal Hussain, wounded, who included
died after an exchange of six women and girls, and
gunfire with police. His fam- seven men. The wounded
ily has said he suffered from ranged in age from 17 to
lifelong "severe mental 59.
health challenges" but they Anthony Parise, who taught
never imagined he would Fallon's Grade 12 English
do such a thing. It was not Desirae Shapiro, 19 and her mother, Gina Shapiro, friends of 18-year-old Danforth shooting victim, class, remembered her as
immediately clear whether mourn after visiting memorial, Monday, July 23, 2018, in Toronto. "a leader among her peers"
he took his own life or was Associated Press who planned to become a
killed by police during the nurse.
attack Sunday night. proaches, including thera- Canada overhauled its ported a motion urging the "She was so excited to be
"At this stage, based on the py and medication. gun-control laws after the federal government to ban accepted into the McMas-
state of the investigation, "While we did our best to country's worst mass shoot- the sale of handguns in To- ter program for nursing. I
which is led by the Toronto seek help for him through- ing in 1989, when gunman ronto. know that her plan was to
police service, there is no out his life of struggle and Marc Lepine killed 14 wom- "People in the city of Toron- become a mental health
connection between that pain, we could never imag- en and himself at Mon- to don't need handguns," nurse," he said.
individual and national se- ine that this would be his treal's Ecole Polytechnique Tory said. Flags at Toronto City Hall
curity," Public Safety Minis- devastating and destruc- college. It is now illegal to Canadians have long tak- as well as at Fallon's former
ter Ralph Goodale said. tive end," the family said. possess an unregistered en comfort in the peace- high school, Malvern CI,
The mass shooting in To- "Our hearts are in pieces for handgun or any kind of fulness of their communi- were lowered to half-staff.
ronto's Greektown neigh- the victims and for our city rapid-fire weapon. Cana- ties and are nervous about According to videos and
borhood stunned people as we all come to grips with da also requires training, anything that might indi- witness accounts, the as-
in a normally safe city, al- this terrible tragedy. We will a personal risk assessment, cate they are moving clos- sailant, clad all in black,
ready unsettled by an at- mourn those who were lost two references, spousal er to their American coun- was seen walking quickly
tack just three months ago for the rest of our lives." notification and criminal re- terparts. down a sidewalk on Dan-
when a man used a van to Investigators searched the cord checks. Still, though mass shootings forth Avenue, firing a hand-
plow over pedestrians on low-income apartment During a debate in City are rare in Canada's largest gun into shops and restau-
a downtown sidewalk, kill- that Hussain shared with Council on Tuesday, Coun- city, Toronto police had de- rants in Greektown, a dis-
ing 10 people and injuring his parents and siblings on cilman Joe Cressy asked if ployed dozens of addition- trict of expensive homes,
14 in an attack apparently Thorncliffe Park Drive in the Toronto could outright ban al officers over the week- eateries and cafes.
aimed at women. eastern part of the city, guns and was informed it end to deal with a recent At the corner of Danforth
Hussain's family issued a and removed boxes of po- would be up to the federal rise in gun violence. The city and Logan, where some of
statement saying their son tential evidence overnight. government to change the has seen 23 gun homicides the shots were fired, about
had a long history of psy- An autopsy on Hussain was laws. Mayor John Tory has so far this year, compared 50 people milled about on
chosis and depression and expected Tuesday. also questioned why any- to 16 fatal shootings in the a small square Monday
had not responded to Where Hussain got his hand- body would need a gun in first half of 2017. evening, talking in several
numerous treatment ap- gun remains unknown. Toronto and said he sup- Police Chief Mark Saunders languages. q