A Toronto shooter identified and a police search pattern after 2 deaths

The man accused of shooting 15 people and killing two at a Toronto street restaurant was suffering from serious mental disorders, his family said Monday in a statement.

Less than a day after two girls, ages 10 and 18, were killed and 13 others wounded by a sniper, the suspect was identified by the Special Investigations Unit (SIU) such as Faisal Hussain, a 29-year-old Toronto resident. He was found dead shortly after the shooting, authorities said.

"We do not know why this happened," said Toronto Police Chief Mark Saunders on Monday, adding that he would not speculate on the shooter's mobile. "It's too early to dismiss anything."

The suspect, armed with a revolver, opened fire at 10 pm Sunday, local time, on a street in Danforth Avenue filled with restaurants and attractions for families in the Greektown neighborhood, a reported the UES

. "We are completely devastated by the incomprehensible news that our son was responsible for senseless violence and loss of life," said Hussain's family in a statement, adding that he was suffering from a serious mental illness and of "psychosis and depression all his life".

"We did our best to ask him for help throughout his life of struggles and suffering, we could never have imagined that it would be his devastating and destructive end," said the communiqué

. The police did not identify the two girls killed in the attack. Local politician Nathaniel Erskine-Smith confirmed that the 18-year-old victim was Reese Fallon, a student who planned to study nursing.

The gunman shoots gunshots with the police, escaped and was found dead later, according to the SIU, which investigates deaths and injuries involving police officers.

Toronto is experiencing a sharp increase in episodes of gun violence this year. Up to now, gun deaths have jumped from 26% to 53% over the same period last year, police data showed last week, and gun shootings have increased by 13%

. 200 police officers since July 20 in response to the recent wave of gunfights attributed by the authorities to gang violence.

John Tory, Mayor of Toronto, told reporters that the city had a gun problem. too many have too easy access to them.