Family says Toronto gunman has mental problems

ROB GILLIES and TAMARA LUSH

TORONTO (AP) – A man whose family said he suffered from psychosis and depression shot a handgun at restaurants and cafes in a busy Toronto neighborhood, killing 10 year old girl. an 18-year-old woman and 13 others wounded in an attack that shook the confidence of many in the normally safe city.

Authorities on Monday identified the suspect as Faisal Hussain, 29, of Toronto, who died in a shootout with the police. The mbad shootout in the Greektown neighborhood of Toronto on Sunday night took place three months after a van hit and killed 10 people in an attack apparently directed against women

. A statement from Hussain's family stated that their son had serious mental health issues as the fight against psychosis and depression. They said that the drugs did not help and that the interventions of the professionals failed.

"While we were doing our best to ask for help throughout his life, we could never imagine that it would be his devastating and destructive end.", Said the Hussain family [19659004"Ourheartsareinpiecesforthevictimsandforourcityasweallfacethisterribletragedywewillcryforthosewhohavebeenlostfortherestofourlives"

Chief of Police Mark Saunders said that he would not speculate on a mobile but did not exclude terrorism.

"It is almost inconceivable that these things happen," said Mayor John Tory. "We were so used to living in a city where these things did not happen and as we saw them unfold in the world around we (we) thought they could not get here. "

" This is an attack on "

Reese Fallon, a recent high school graduate who volunteered for the Liberal Party of Canada, had to go to McMaster University in the fall. His family said in a statement that they were devastated.

"She was … smart, pbadionate, and full of energy – it's a huge loss," said Canadian MP Nathaniel Erskine-Smith, who knew Fallon
. Toronto City Hall and the former Fallon High School, Malvern CI, have been halved. "A pbadionate student, Reese Fallon graduated from Malvern CI last month and was highly regarded by the staff and loved by his friends, "said the school board in a statement, adding that support was available to students

.The wounded are aged 10 to 59 and suffer serious to minor injuries. said Saunders.He did not name the victims, which included eight women and girls, and seven men

.Najma Ahmed, of St. Michael's Hospital, said that five patients had been admitted to a serious or critical condition and that three of the five had ubi immediate rescue operations

A video taken by a witness showed a man dressed in black walking fast on a sidewalk and firing three shots in at least one store or restaurant in Toronto's Greek neighborhood, a residential neighborhood crowded with Greek restaurants and cafes.

Witnesses heard several shots and described the suspect pbading by restaurants and cafes on both sides of the street.
At the corner of Danforth and Logan, where some of the shots were fired, about fifty people gobbled up on a small square Monday night, speaking several languages. They expressed their shock during a shootout in such a neighborhood, which is embellished with parks, pretty two-story brick houses and cafes in the streets.

Some hugged, others cried. Others were bleak, wondering at once why someone would want to hurt people in their neighborhood – and how he got a weapon in a country with much stricter weapons laws than ever before. In the United States

Bouquets of flowers near a commemorative plaque while a few steps away people have signed an improvised memorial made of plywood. "We are Danforth's strong," he says, referring to the neighborhood's main street, The Danforth.

"I do not agree to think about it," said Augustino Speciale, 66, who smelled a bunch of white lilies attached to a lamp post. "It's Toronto."

The Ontario police watchdog said there had been an exchange of fire between the attacker and two officers in an adjacent street before the man is found dead near Danforth Avenue. When she heard gunshots, a mother and her son ran into her store with gunshot wounds to their legs

"They said that they were walking and a man told them to spawn a way and he just fired "Wilson says

Wilson says that she tied and raised their wounds and tried to keep them calm while they were waiting for paramedics. She shut the door and turned off the lights. lights, not knowing what was going on outside

Jody Steinhauer celebrating her birthday with her family at Christina's restaurant on Danforth Avenue when they heard 10 to 15 shots, ran to the back of the restaurant and hid under a table.

"We heard a woman yelling," Help! "My partner left the restaurant and the woman was right there, she was shot and wounded," she said. [19659003] Her boyfriend and a doctor who was in the restaurant have taken care of the woman who was shot in the thigh. She screamed and screamed and was shocked.Nobody was with her.Although mbad shootings are rare in Canada's largest city, Toronto police have deployed dozens of additional agents. during the weekend to deal with a recent increase in gun violence in the city, which was the case. [traduction]