Faisal Hussain, gunman in Danforth shooting rampage, killed himself: police source

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Faisal Hussain, gunman in Danforth shooting rampage, killed himself: police source
High-capacity magazine, large quantity of ammunition found in apartment
CBC News · Posted: Jul 25, 2018 5:14 PM ET | Last Updated: 26 minutes ago

Faisal Hussain, the shooter in the Toronto Danforth Avenue attack that killed two and injured 13 on Sunday evening, appears in a high school photo. (Submitted by Aamir Sukhera)

The gunman in Sunday's deadly attack on Danforth Avenue in Toronto died of a self-inflicted gunshot wound to the head following an exchange of gunfire with officers, a police source tells CBC News.

During the attack, which killed two people and wounded 13 others, police located Faisal Hussain, 29, near Danforth and Bowden avenues the city's vibrant Greektown neighbourhood.

That was where the gunfight took place, according to Ontario's police watchdog, the Special Investigations Unit (SIU).

Hussain was found dead some 100 metres away on Danforth Avenue, leaving a trail of bullets behind him. Reese Fallon, 18, and 10-year-old Julianna Kozis were gunned in his rampage. Some of the wounded, authorities say, have life-altering injuries.

Meanwhile, a second police source told CBC News that investigators located a high-capacity magazine and a large quantity of ammunition for an assault-style rifle while searchingHussain's apartment in the Thorncliffe Park neighbourhood. Both sources spoke on condition of anonymity because they were not authorized to discuss the investigation.

That source said Hussain was not known to be a gang member.

Video posted on social media showed Hussain clad in black, firing at least three shots into a cafe or restaurant.(@ArielAnise/Twitter)

Body released to family
But the first police source earlier alleged that Hussain's 31-year-old brother, who has been in hospital in a coma for upwards of a year, has ties to a Thorncliffe Park gang, which might explain how he obtained a firearm.

Hussain's mental health problems — he suffered depression and psychosis according to his family — have raised questions about how he got a gun.

A source close to the family, also speaking on condition of anonymity, said the family had no knowledge of such activity by the brother.

Julianna Kozis, left, and Reese Fallon, right, were killed in the shooting. (Toronto Police Service/Facebook)

A police source earlier told CBC News that Hussain's prior contact with authorities had involved mental health problems. Hussain did not have a criminal record and his prior contact with police did not involve a risk to public safety, according to a Toronto Police Service spokesperson.

The revelations come one day after a post-mortem examination on Hussain, though the SIU declined to comment on its results, citing the ongoing investigation.

Hussain's body was released to his family on Tuesday, an SIU spokesperson told CBC News in a statement.

As investigators work to determine Hussain's motive, police refuted a report that the Islamic State in Iraq and Syria (ISIS) had claimed responsibility for the shooting.

"At this stage, we have no evidence to support these claims," said Toronto police Chief Mark Saunders said in a statement.

ISIS did not provide any evidence to support the claim, nor can CBC News verify the legitimacy of the ISIS statement.

Concern over 'backlash'
A representative of the Masjid Dar-us Salaam mosque, where Hussain's father sometimes prays, said the first thing that came to his mind when the shooter was identified was "backlash."

"Because he's a Muslim… people will just attach religion to it and condemn the whole religion and condemn all Muslims," said Ilyas Mullah.

Mullah says the shooting underscores a serious need for better education around mental health in society.

Ilyas Mullah says the shooting underscores a serious need for better education around mental health in society. (CBC)

The Canadian Council of Imams echoed that sentiment in a statement Tuesday:

"While we await the full investigation by the Toronto Police Services, this is certainly a cause for all of us to make mental health a priority in our communities to help avoid terrible tragedies like this from ever happening again," it said.

"This senseless and unspeakable act of violence has no place in our society."

 

[yellow_violence]

说难民是“国家财富”，归mental hospital管不？

 

[heureux]

"Because he's a Muslim… people will just attach religion to it and condemn the whole religion and condemn all Muslims," said Ilyas Mullah.

这个预防针打得好，有水平！

 

[yellow_violence]

少了义正词严地说一句，这是不对滴！

 

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A representative of the Masjid Dar-us Salaam mosque, where Hussain's father sometimes prays, said the first thing that came to his mind when the shooter was identified was "backlash."

这个当爹的对无辜被杀的两个女孩（年龄加起来都没他儿子大），对无辜受伤的那么多人一句 Sorry 的话都没有？

 

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Toronto shooter died of self-inflicted gunshot wound: source
CTVNews.ca Staff
Published Wednesday, July 25, 2018 9:08AM EDT
Last Updated Wednesday, July 25, 2018 8:14PM EDT

A source close to Faisal Hussain's family tells CTV News that the gunman was buried on Wednesday, and that he died from a self-inflicted gunshot wound.

Meanwhile, a source familiar with the case says that the gun Hussain used in Sunday’s mass shooting was likely obtained from a “gang-related source.”

CP24 safety specialist Cam Woolley says a police source has told him the semi-automatic handgun used in the shooting is illegal in Canada and was originally from the United States. American authorities are helping track the gun’s exact origin.

Hussain opened fire on Danforth Avenue in Toronto Sunday night, killing two people and wounding 13 others. Ontario’s Special Investigations Unit has not said how he died, only that police officers located him Sunday night and that “an exchange of gunfire took place.”

CTV News has also learned that ammunition and large-capacity magazines were found by police officers searching the apartment Faisal Hussain shared with his parents. Police are also looking into the connection between Hussain’s brother, who is currently in a coma, and a 2017 seizure of more than 30 guns in Pickering, Ont.

The shooting has set off a debate about gun control in Canada’s largest city and across the country. Public Safety Minister Ralph Goodale has said that the federal government was already considering changes to Canada’s gun laws prior to Sunday’s attack.

Toronto city councillors voted Tuesday in favour of a number of initiatives aimed at curbing gun violence, including hiring 100 new police officers, installing new security cameras and gunshot-detecting microphones in the city, and increasing funding for youth and mental health initiatives.

Councillors also voted to request that the provincial and federal governments ban the sale of handguns and ammunition in Toronto. Mayor John Tory has suggested that he would be in favour of stricter regulations, commenting that he does not see any reason for anybody to possess a gun in Toronto.

CTV public safety analyst Chris Lewis, a former commissioner of the Ontario Provincial Police, says it would be difficult for the city to impose such a ban unilaterally. As gun crimes are regulated by the federal government, the city’s only option would be to put a gun ban into a bylaw, putting offences on the same level as parking violations.

“There’s not a lot of bite there,” Lewis told CTV’s Your Morning.

Instead, Lewis says, any serious action on gun control would have to come from the federal government.

“We have to find a way to close loopholes so people who shouldn’t have guns don’t get them,” he said.

Possible measures the government could look at, according to Lewis, include increasing the depth and frequency of background checks on gun owners and giving doctors the ability to contact police if they believe a patient’s mental health status may make them a threat to themselves or others.

Toronto police have said that about half of the guns used for criminal activity have at some point been purchased from people who bought them legally in Canada, while the other half were smuggled in from the United States.

That split has become much more even in recent years. Before 2012, it was estimated that 75 per cent of guns used in crimes in Toronto came from across the border.

Lewis says it is easy for Canadians to purchase guns legally for several hundred dollars and sell them illegally for several thousand dollars, while carrying less risk than trying to get a gun past border guards.

“There’s a lot of money in it,” he said. “That’s illegal, but you don’t know about it until one turns up at a crime scene somewhere.”

The federal government introduced legislation earlier this year to require businesses to maintain records showing inventories and transfers of non-restricted firearms.

 

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A representative of the Masjid Dar-us Salaam mosque, where Hussain's father sometimes prays, said the first thing that came to his mind when the shooter was identified was "backlash."

这个当爹的对无辜被杀的两个女孩（年龄加起来都没他儿子大），对无辜受伤的那么多人一句 Sorry 的话都没有？

非常遗憾，这里的人平时sorry不断，该说sorry的时候不说。

 

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A representative of the Masjid Dar-us Salaam mosque, where Hussain's father sometimes prays, said the first thing that came to his mind when the shooter was identified was "backlash."

这个当爹的对无辜被杀的两个女孩（年龄加起来都没他儿子大），对无辜受伤的那么多人一句 Sorry 的话都没有？

Suspected Danforth shooter’s family cites psychosis, ‘severe mental health challenges,’ after SIU identifies him as Faisal Hussain, 29, of Toronto
By Wendy GillisCrime Reporter
Jacques GallantLegal Affairs Reporter
Rachel MendlesonInvestigative Reporter
Mon., July 23, 2018

The man who unleashed bullets on a busy Danforth stretch Sunday night was suffering from “severe mental health challenges” and struggling with psychosis and depression, his devastated family said Monday.

Just after 10 p.m. Sunday, a lone gunman dressed in dark clothing and a black baseball cap fired upon groups of people as they were enjoying a warm summer night out in Toronto’s Greektown neighbourhood — killing a 10-year-old girl and an 18-year-old woman, and injuring 13 others.

The Special Invesitgations Unit has identified the Danforth shooting suspect as Faisal Hussain, 29, of Toronto. (@arlianise / Instagram)

The gunman, identified Monday as Faisal Hussain, 29, then died of a self-inflicted gunshot wound, according to police sources.

“We are at a terrible loss for words but we must speak out to express our deepest condolences to the families who are now suffering on account of our son’s horrific actions,” Hussain’s family wrote in a statement Monday.

“We are utterly devastated by the incomprehensible news that our son was responsible for the senseless violence and loss of life that took place on the Danforth.”

Twin investigations are now underway to determine key details in a shooting that has left the city grieving, shocking the residents in the vibrant Greektown neighbourhood where police descended Monday to collect evidence and photograph bullet casings.

Chief among the questions now are what motivated the gunman, and how he got a hold of a handgun — particularly in light of his family’s claims he suffered from psychosis. The family’s statement said the interventions of professionals were unsuccessful in helping him, and medications and therapy “were unable to treat him.”

“While we did our best to seek help for him throughout his life of struggle and pain, we could never imagine that this would be his devastating and destructive end,” the statement read.

Toronto police Chief Mark Saunders said at a news conference at police headquarters that the investigation was “very fluid, it is very new.”

“We do not know why this has happened yet,” he said. “It’s going to take some time.

While Toronto police are probing the actions of the shooter, Ontario’s police watchdog, the Special Investigations Unit (SIU), is examining Hussain’s death. Officials with the SIU confirmed Hussain died following an exchange of gunfire with two Toronto police officers on Bowden St. He then fled the area, but was found dead on Danforth Ave.

While the SIU has not provided any details, police sources tell the Star Hussain died of a self-inflicted gunshot wound.

The two officers involved in the shootout were “visibly shaken” by the encounter, said Toronto Police Association president Mike McCormack. The alleyway where the exchange of gunfire took place remained cordoned off by yellow tape Monday, a police cruiser towed from the scene earlier in the day leaving broken glass in its wake.

Police are now digging into the suspected shooter’s background, and have gotten a warrant to search a unit in a residence on Thorncliffe Park Dr. On Monday evening, two Toronto police officers sat outside the door to a mid-level apartment unit, while a security guard watched the front entrance.

Prior to Sunday’s shooting, the Hussain family had already suffered tragedy, residents of the building said.

An officer walks past a bullet hole in the window of a Second Cup Coffee shop. Shortly after 10 p.m. Sunday, a gunman walked along Danforth Ave. and shot people as they were enjoying a night out in Toronto's Greektown. (Richard Lautens)
Khalid Malik said Hussain had a sister who died several years ago in an accident, and has a brother who has been in a coma in hospital for the last year.

Mirza Baig, a long-time resident of the building, said Hussain’s father was also sick and possibly suffering from Parkinson’s.

Malik described Hussain as a quiet man he would sometimes run into on the street. The two would shake hands and Hussain would give him a cigarette but never said much.

“Unbelievable,” Malik kept repeating Monday evening, speaking to reporters.

Of the 15 victims shot in the rampage, eight were female. The surviving thirteen victims range in age from 17 to 59 years old, and remain in hospital with injuries ranging from minor to critical.

In a news release Monday evening, Toronto police identified the killed woman as Reese Fallon, 18, who lived in Toronto’s Beach neighbourhood. A spokesperson for the devastated family said the family had requested privacy, adding he personally knew her to be as caring and “whip smart.”

Fallon’s younger sister posted a lengthy tribute on Instagram Monday evening. “Today has been the hardest because I haven’t just lost a sister I’ve lost my lifelong best-friend and anyone who knew us knew that when we were together we were inseparable,” she wrote.

“I am crushed and broken and there won’t be one minute that goes by for the rest of my life that I won’t think of you.”

Police did not identify the 10-year-old girl who was killed, saying her family did not want her name released.

Witness Ali Demircan, who was sitting with friends on a bench near Logan and Danforth Aves. Sunday night, told the Star he saw an injured woman during a break in the shooting.

Demircan said the woman, who was holding her arm where she appeared to have been shot, approached him and asked him to call 911, but the shooting started again before he could do so.

“When I turned back there she was lying behind a small tree on Logan avenue. People were trying to help her and do CPR,” Demircan said.

“It was terrible.”

Neither police nor the SIU would speculate on a motive for the shooting.

“He received a gunshot wound, but I’m not going to expand on that,” Toronto police Chief Mark Saunders said at the Monday news conference.

After Hussain was identified, the National Council of Canadian Muslims released a statement condemning the shooting attack.

“Like all Canadians, we grieve the loss of our fellow community members and our thoughts and prayers are with the survivors, the families and friends of the victims, and all Torontonians during this absolutely heartbreaking time,” NCCM Executive Director Ihsaan Gardee said in the statement.

The gunman was randomly shooting like someone “in a video game,” witness Lenny Graf told the Star.

“He was very relaxed, it was pretty disturbing,” said Graf, who was with his family having dinner at Christina’s Restaurant when his kids asked to go play at the fountain in the Alexander the Great parkette on Logan Ave.

When Graf got outside, he heard loud popping sounds.

“I thought it was firecrackers, except that people started to run away, and crouch down and scream,” he said.

The gunman, who was dressed in all black, was on the sidewalk on the north side of Danforth, near the fountain, Graf said.

“I saw him finish shooting some people and then walk away,” Graf said.

Graf said he remembers seeing someone on the ground, then seeing paramedics and police arrive.

“I always thought if I was up against a guy shooting people, I would run up and grab the gun or something, but there was no way to do that,” he said.

Androo Leipurts was bartending at Brass Taps pub when he heard a loud commotion and looked out the window to see people running. He saw a woman running, then fall to the ground.

“I essentially saw someone’s daughter drop to the ground and roll,” he said.

Mayor John Tory, who headed to the shooting scene Sunday night, offered his condolences to families of the victims and urged residents not to jump to conclusions about what transpired and why.

In a statement, Tory called the shooting a “despicable act.”

“On behalf of all Toronto residents, I am outraged that someone has unleashed such a terrible attack on our city and people innocently enjoying a Sunday evening,” Tory said.

“ ... While our city will always be resilient in the face of such attacks, it does not mean such a cowardly act committed against our residents is any less painful — this is an attack against innocent families and our entire city.”

Danforth Ave. was closed between Broadview and Pape Aves. until shortly after 5:30 p.m.

The normally vibrant strip of the Danforth was eerily quiet in the morning, hours after the shooting. There were no parents walking their children to day camp, no businesses open and no one was grabbing pastries from the local coffee shops.

No one was allowed inside except for a few business owners escorted by police to grab belongings. All morning, residents stopped, stared, shook their heads and muttered words like “unbelievable” and “isn’t this crazy?”

At 7 p.m. Monday, people streamed into Calvary Church, just north of Danforth Ave. for a prayer vigil that was closed to media.

Some carried flowers, others hugged and fought back tears.

“We love the Danforth and were so sad this happened here,” said Nancy Kruger, who said she lived in the neighbourhood when she was younger and had returned to support local businesses.

“We are not afraid to come back here,” she said.

Shiraz Mohamed, an Imam at nearby Madinah mosque walked with a group of about 20 others from the mosque to the vigil.

“We are part of this community and we are affected like anybody else so we wanted to show our support,” he said on his way there.

Three patients were taken to Sunnybrook hospital late Sunday. Five were taken to St. Michael’s Hospital with injuries ranging from serious to critical. Three of the patients at St. Mike’s underwent “immediate, life-saving surgery.”

Michael Garron hospital, formerly the Toronto East General Hospital, treated two gunshot victims, who are in stable condition. The hospital also treated five others who were hurt, but they have since been released.

 

[云霞]

如果没死，是不是还要赔钱补偿精神损失费啊。

 

[flapjack_monkey]

Faisal Hussain, gunman in Danforth shooting rampage, killed himself: police source
High-capacity magazine, large quantity of ammunition found in apartment
CBC News · Posted: Jul 25, 2018 5:14 PM ET | Last Updated: 26 minutes ago

Faisal Hussain, the shooter in the Toronto Danforth Avenue attack that killed two and injured 13 on Sunday evening, appears in a high school photo. (Submitted by Aamir Sukhera)

The gunman in Sunday's deadly attack on Danforth Avenue in Toronto died of a self-inflicted gunshot wound to the head following an exchange of gunfire with officers, a police source tells CBC News.

During the attack, which killed two people and wounded 13 others, police located Faisal Hussain, 29, near Danforth and Bowden avenues the city's vibrant Greektown neighbourhood.

That was where the gunfight took place, according to Ontario's police watchdog, the Special Investigations Unit (SIU).

Hussain was found dead some 100 metres away on Danforth Avenue, leaving a trail of bullets behind him. Reese Fallon, 18, and 10-year-old Julianna Kozis were gunned in his rampage. Some of the wounded, authorities say, have life-altering injuries.

Meanwhile, a second police source told CBC News that investigators located a high-capacity magazine and a large quantity of ammunition for an assault-style rifle while searchingHussain's apartment in the Thorncliffe Park neighbourhood. Both sources spoke on condition of anonymity because they were not authorized to discuss the investigation.

That source said Hussain was not known to be a gang member.

Video posted on social media showed Hussain clad in black, firing at least three shots into a cafe or restaurant.(@ArielAnise/Twitter)

Body released to family
But the first police source earlier alleged that Hussain's 31-year-old brother, who has been in hospital in a coma for upwards of a year, has ties to a Thorncliffe Park gang, which might explain how he obtained a firearm.

Hussain's mental health problems — he suffered depression and psychosis according to his family — have raised questions about how he got a gun.

A source close to the family, also speaking on condition of anonymity, said the family had no knowledge of such activity by the brother.

Julianna Kozis, left, and Reese Fallon, right, were killed in the shooting. (Toronto Police Service/Facebook)

A police source earlier told CBC News that Hussain's prior contact with authorities had involved mental health problems. Hussain did not have a criminal record and his prior contact with police did not involve a risk to public safety, according to a Toronto Police Service spokesperson.

The revelations come one day after a post-mortem examination on Hussain, though the SIU declined to comment on its results, citing the ongoing investigation.

Hussain's body was released to his family on Tuesday, an SIU spokesperson told CBC News in a statement.

As investigators work to determine Hussain's motive, police refuted a report that the Islamic State in Iraq and Syria (ISIS) had claimed responsibility for the shooting.

"At this stage, we have no evidence to support these claims," said Toronto police Chief Mark Saunders said in a statement.

ISIS did not provide any evidence to support the claim, nor can CBC News verify the legitimacy of the ISIS statement.

Concern over 'backlash'
A representative of the Masjid Dar-us Salaam mosque, where Hussain's father sometimes prays, said the first thing that came to his mind when the shooter was identified was "backlash."

"Because he's a Muslim… people will just attach religion to it and condemn the whole religion and condemn all Muslims," said Ilyas Mullah.

Mullah says the shooting underscores a serious need for better education around mental health in society.

Ilyas Mullah says the shooting underscores a serious need for better education around mental health in society. (CBC)

The Canadian Council of Imams echoed that sentiment in a statement Tuesday:

"While we await the full investigation by the Toronto Police Services, this is certainly a cause for all of us to make mental health a priority in our communities to help avoid terrible tragedies like this from ever happening again," it said.

"This senseless and unspeakable act of violence has no place in our society."

killed himself。。。木木自杀可是犯了绿教的大罪。人体炸弹是殉道，与敌人同归于尽，死了在天堂有七十二个处女等着。自杀则是要下地狱的。

 

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killed himself。。。木木自杀可是犯了绿教的大罪。人体炸弹是殉道，与敌人同归于尽，死了在天堂有七十二个处女等着。自杀则是要下地狱的。

天堂有72个处女；
地狱里有72个小妖女等着。

就看木木的 individual 口味了。

喜欢冰山美女的上天堂， 喜欢妖娆似火的下地狱