CANADA - 3 dead including gunman, 12 injured in Greektown shooting, Toronto, July 2018

[MistyWaters]

Why ISIS claims responsibility for attacks it didn't commit

"There is a long history of terrorists trying to elbow themselves into the limelight and milk some horrible tragedy to claim some credit for themselves," said Hoffman, who serves as Georgetown University's director of security studies.

"For them, it's a quote-unquote 'freebie,' in the sense that they get attention, and people talk about whether it's them. For terrorist groups, being in the news is one of the validations that they have an impact," he said.
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Excellent quote, maybe people don’t realize how they might be unknowingly feeding ISIS with freebies. ISIS would only need a auto word search of their name via SM to notice crimes and comments that literally beg their acknowledgement.

It’s as if there was never a single horrendous deed known to North America prior to the Iraq war and the creation of ISIS. Now they are everywhere and their name is on top of many people’s mind each and every time a tragedy occurs.

I think it’s sad actually. Rather than society contemplating what’s gone wrong with people such as Hussain who suddenly become horrendous destructors, it’s much easier to assign responsibility to an outside entity that we have absolutely no control over.

 

[matou]

The gunman who opened fire on a busy Toronto street Sunday night shot himself after a confrontation with police, sources told Global News.

Toronto gunman Faisal Hussain died after shooting himself: source | Globalnews.ca

 

[matou]

Did he drive? Did he take the bus to Pape station to get to Greektown?

 

[bluesneakers]

The love of Toronto will never be forgotten.

Love for all. Hatred for none.

 

[Gardenista]

Friend of alleged Greektown assassin accused of possessing historic drug, firearm arsenal

 

[dotr]

Friend of alleged Greektown assassin accused of possessing historic drug, firearm arsenal

Correction concerning the gun's origin.
"The firearm used in Sunday’s attack was stolen from a legitimate Canadian owner — and not an American weapon as previously reported, sources told the Sun.

On Wednesday, CTV reported the firearm allegedly used by Hussain was stolen from Saskatoon."
rbbm.

 

[dotr]

Teacher says Faisal Hussain told him: 'I want to kill someone'
"A teacher and a former classmate of the man who shot 15 people on a busy Toronto street on Sunday say he made disturbing comments that once prompted a call to police.

Faisal Hussain’s teacher at Victoria Park Collegiate says the school called the police nine years ago after a conversation he had with Hussain in class.

“I asked him, ‘What do you want to do? Like what do you want to do with your life?’” the teacher told CTV Toronto. “And (Hussain) said 'I want to kill someone.'”
"The classmate says she was friends with Hussain on Facebook and that he would post pictures of guns and make worrisome comments.
“He would talk about beating up his mom,”
rbbm.

 

[MistyWaters]

Did he drive? Did he take the bus to Pape station to get to Greektown?

In one of the MSM reports iirc stated Hussain didn’t drive. It’s possible the family had no vehicle.

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Maybe someone who’s familiar with Thorncliffe Park where he lived could please elaborate. Is this an accurate description?....

“The downtown and inner suburbs are now like two worlds: one alive and optimistic, a promised land of gleaming, modern glass towers and four-star restaurants, the other spiralling into poverty. Thorncliffe Park, Malvern, Jane and Finch, and Dixon have become shorthand for crumbling postwar apartment blocks, underfunded schools or gang warfare. They’re among the neighbourhoods with the lowest incomes in the city, the longest trek to a TTC stop, and the highest concentration of immigrants and visible minorities.”
#TorontoIsFailingMe: This Is the Inner Suburbs

 

[CoolJ]

No surprise there. Control your border Canada, control your border. Before it is too late.

Toronto shooter's gun was illegal, originally from U.S.: source
rbbm.
"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."
"CTV News has further 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."
Man charged after discovery of guns, drugs in Pickering remains in custody
Noting, "dangerous synthetic opioid"
April 2018

"PICKERING -- Investigators have charged a second suspect after police seized 33 guns and carfentanil from a Pickering residence in September 2017. - Durham Regional Police Service

DURHAM — A man slapped with hundreds of charges after firefighters responding to an alarm at a house in Pickering discovered what turned out to be a dangerous synthetic opioid remains in custody following a court appearance Thursday."

Well look at that... gun came across our southern border.... who woulda thought?

Build the wall!

 

[MistyWaters]

Well look at that... gun came across our southern border.... who woulda thought?

Build the wall!

See dotr’s post #227 for the latest.

It’s somewhat of an urban myth that guns cannot be legally purchased in Canada.
Legal Classes of Firearms in Canada

 

[dotr]

Well look at that... gun came across our southern border.... who woulda thought?

Build the wall!

The gun is now said to be legal and apparently stolen in Sask. RE post# 227
It would not be surprising if all that has been reported so far changes several times over.imo.

 

[MistyWaters]

The gun is now said to be legal and apparently stolen in Sask. RE post# 227
It would not be surprising if all that has been reported so far changes several times over.imo.

Yes indeed a proliferation of anonymous sources close to something or other but very few are either named or official.

 

[MistyWaters]

A heartbreaking, senseless tragedy.....well beyond a parent’s worst nightmare.
Julianna Kozis, 10, and Reese Fallon, 18, remembered for their grace and energy
'She isn't coming back': Community mourns loss of 2 young lives in Danforth shooting | CBC News

 

[ttcRider]

I cannot think of any neighbourhood that wasnt a quick 5 min. walk to ttc. Thats the beauty of Toronto. You dont need a car and many people dont own one. Theres no where to park it if you did and it just isnt cost efficient.

 

[matou]

As a student at Victoria Park Collegiate Institute, Faisal Hussain was a “very disturbed” young man who spoke “a lot about the pain he was in and the voices that he heard,” says the former head of special education at the high school.

Enrolled in Focus on Success, a separate program for at-risk students, the skinny teen frequently voiced a fear he might hurt someone, and once repeatedly cut into his face with a pencil sharpener blade, prompting a call to police, says educator Jenessa Dworet.

Danforth shooter ‘was afraid he was going to hurt people’ | The Star

 

[dotr]

The real meaning of #TorontoStrong - Macleans.ca
The real meaning of #TorontoStrong
Steve Maich: Why a year of tragedy won't change Canada's biggest city—it will remind us of what we are
by Steve Maich
Jul 25, 2018
"There have been moments in this awful year in Toronto when the stories of violence and terror have seemed almost surreal."
"All of this has deeply shaken a city that prides itself on its peaceful image."

"This week, two more families suffered horrible, inconsolable losses. Dozens more have joined the ranks of people living with the physical and psychological scars left by this year of misery.

The rest of us are shocked and saddened. We are galvanized by the small stories of bravery, generosity and compassion that emerge in the aftermath of terror. We try to learn what little we can. And we move on. We do all this because, as we remind each other in subtle ways every day, we don’t want this to change us. Toronto is not innocent. But, like Paris and Orlando and Barcelona and Boston and far too many others, we are reminded that Toronto is strong."

 

[Jackeee]

Teacher says Faisal Hussain told him: 'I want to kill someone'
"A teacher and a former classmate of the man who shot 15 people on a busy Toronto street on Sunday say he made disturbing comments that once prompted a call to police.

Faisal Hussain’s teacher at Victoria Park Collegiate says the school called the police nine years ago after a conversation he had with Hussain in class.

“I asked him, ‘What do you want to do? Like what do you want to do with your life?’” the teacher told CTV Toronto. “And (Hussain) said 'I want to kill someone.'”
"The classmate says she was friends with Hussain on Facebook and that he would post pictures of guns and make worrisome comments.
“He would talk about beating up his mom,”
rbbm.

He said he wanted to kill someone.
He talked about beating up his mom.

I don’t have the right words to comment at this time. But I will!!

 

[KaaBoom]

Well look at that... gun came across our southern border.... who woulda thought?

Build the wall!

I really hope Canada can get this problem under control, and doesn't go down the same road as the unnamed off-topic country to the south.

 

[Elley Mae]

The gun used in the deadly shooting was stolen in a break-and-enter in Saskatoon a few years ago, a police source told CTV News Toronto.

Self-inflicted gunshot wound killed suspected Danforth shooter: source
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Court transcripts state 33-year-old Maisum Ansari — who grew up in the same neighbourhood as Fahad Hussain, the brother of Greektown gunman Faisal Hussain — was charged last Sept. of possessing 53 kilograms of carfentanil, an analog of fentanyl and 100 times stronger than the painkiller and notoriously deadly street narcotic.


https://www.google.com/amp/s/toront...-possessing-historic-drug-firearm-arsenal/amp

“Ansari, Fahad and Faisal were all friends growing up in the same neighbourhood,” a source told the Sun. “Fahad decided to go out west, was arrested and then his friend Ansari came to his aid as his surety.”

Fahad has been in a persistent vegetative state in hospital with little brain activity after overdosing on a mixture of cocaine and heroin last summer, sources told the Sun.

 

[Elley Mae]

Toronto shooter's neighbors unaware of his mental illness

Toronto shooter's neighbors unaware of his mental illness