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Julianna Kozis, 10, (left) and Reese Fallon, 18, whose images are seen here at a memorial on the Danforth, were killed and 13 others wounded when a gunman went on a shooting rampage in Greektown on Sunday, July 22, 2018. (Chris Doucette/Toronto Sun)
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The investigation into last summer’s Danforth shooting horror has wrapped up.
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“The investigation into the Danforth incident is complete,” Toronto Police Chief Mark Saunders said Friday in a statement to the Toronto Sun. “We have always committed to sharing the results publicly but right now our priority is connecting and sharing the information with those most impacted by this tragedy.”
Toronto Police Chief Mark Saunders in his office at police headquarters in Toronto on Dec. 19, 2017. (Ernest Doroszuk/Toronto Sun/Postmedia Network)Photo by Ernest Doroszuk/Toronto Sun/Postmedia Network
It means the families of slain Reese Fallon, 18, and Julianna Kozis, 10, will be notified first.
And, of course, the other 13 gunshot victims from Faisal Hussain’s July 22nd, 2018 rampage.
Hussain died from a self-inflicted gunshot wound, a report from Ontario’s Special Investigations Unit revealed late last year.
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Families at the news conference at The Danforth Music Hall on Friday said police had not informed them at that point that the case was closed. And some expressed disappointment the news was revealed by a reporter during the question-and-answer segment of the news conference.
“If that report is complete, the families should have been told that before the press and TV stations,” said a relative of one victim. “We knew it was wrapping up but had heard (Homicide Insp.) Hank Idsinga had not signed off on it.”
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“We know there is a pressing public interest in the outcome of the investigation but our responsibility right now is to the victims and to the friends and family of those who were killed,” police spokesman Meaghan Gray explained.
Although police will not comment, sources say investigators have determined Hussain, 29, acted alone.
Many looking for answers on why he did what they did, may not get the answers they were looking for including if there was anything to back up ISIS’s claim of responsibility, if there were any prior indicators investigated by the RCMP or his trip to Pakistan in recent years.
Doug Fallon, the father of one of last year’s Danforth shooting victims, Reese, hugs Noor Samiel, who spoke passionately about her best friend who died that night. Their families & their friends gathered at the Danforth Music Hall to call for tighter gun controls in Canada , on Friday, Feb. 22, 2019. (Stan Behal/Toronto Sun/Postmedia Network)
“The word is to not look for any major revelations,” one person close to the case said.
My main question to the chief is will the media and public be taken through the final report and will and when will police take questions?
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