Police on Monday named a 29-year-old man who opened fire on a street in the Greek Quarter of Toronto on Sunday night, killing a young woman and a little girl and injuring 13 others before he was killed in an exchange of fire with police. .
It was Faisal Hussein, a resident of Toronto, according to the head of the Toronto Police Department, Mark Saunders.
Saunders said it was still too early to assess the motives of the perpetrator of the massacre, who used a pistol.
"We do not know why this happened," Saunders said. "It is too early to rule out anything," he added.
But according to the young man's family, Faisal Hussein suffered from a child with "serious mental health problems", which he could never overcome despite taking medication and receiving treatment.
The 29-year-old opened fire shortly after 22:00 on Sunday (early Monday morning, Cyprus time) on a busy Toronto street, full of restaurants, cafes and shops, killing a 10-year-old girl and an 18-year-old woman, and injuring 13 others. He was found dead shortly after the massacre, according to authorities.
"We are absolutely shocked by the unthinkable news that our son committed these acts of unreasonable violence and that he is responsible for these loss of life," Faisal Hussein's family said in a letter to the Canadian public television network CBC.
The gunman exchanged fire with police, escaped and was later found dead, according to police. He suffered a bullet wound, authorities added, which did not go into details.