Shooter attacked strip of restaurants before exchanging gunfire with police
Faisal Hussain has been identified as the gunman in the deadly Danforth Avenue shooting rampage.
My evening was nice until I heard shooting right out of my place on the danforth. So scary!! The gun violence in Toronto is crazy. pic.twitter.com/eNHLlUlp6r
— n???? (@nsxoxoii) July 23, 2018
Ontario’s Special Investigations Unit (SIU) released Hussain’s identity on Monday evening, hours after he opened fire on a number of Danforth Avenue restaurants, killing two people and injuring 13 more.
BREAKING: Faisal Hussain ID’d as gunman in deadly Toronto attack, Ontario’s Special Investigations Unit sayshttps://t.co/QMq9pWbhKx pic.twitter.com/T5p0O0yTIP
— CBC News (@CBCNews) July 23, 2018
Hussain, 29, then died of a gunshot wound after exchanging fire with Toronto police.