It was one investigation Toronto police chief Mark Saunders seemed unwilling to address Thursday.
In fact, for the most part the whole mass tragedy appears to be shrouded under a cone of silence.
Asked whether his force is any closer to understanding what may have motivated the man who killed two females and wounded 13 in a horrific mass shooting on the Danforth in July, at first Saunders completely ignored the question, indicating their frontline officers were on scene in three minutes and 30 seconds.
Then he claimed he doesn’t want to “get into the minutiae (of the investigation) right now” — that there are still “some more things” that need to be looked at before they come to any conclusions.
Faisal Hussain, 29, turned his gun on himself after the rampage, which occurred while citizens were enjoying coffee, a meal or a drink at outdoor cafes along the popular Greektown corridor on a hot Sunday night.
As the Sun’s Anthony Furey revealed in the days following the shooting, a Muslim activist who has apparently committed himself to “framing a new narrative of Muslims in Canada” issued a statement on behalf of the Hussain family shortly after the shooting — indicating the young man had “severe mental health challenges.”
In September, unsealed police documents showed that officers seized the shooter’s electronic devices searching for “any plans for the offences, contacts, substances that could be used to build bombs or any literature or documents depicting hate, extremism, terrorism or a similar belief or following.”
The police documents also indicate that Faisal’s only companions appeared to be his parents — and that in the hours before the shooting, his fraternal twin brother pleaded with him “to get his life together.”
No details were contained in the documents as to what the searches found.
Asked whether the media and the public will ever get an account of what was behind the shooting, Saunders responded: “I’m sure there will be an opportunity to present whatever we can to the public but it’s not going to be today.”
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