{"id":370591,"date":"2018-07-24T03:39:25","date_gmt":"2018-07-24T02:39:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/two-dead-13-injured-after-gunman-opens-fire-on-toronto-street\/"},"modified":"2018-07-24T03:39:25","modified_gmt":"2018-07-24T02:39:25","slug":"two-dead-13-injured-after-gunman-opens-fire-on-toronto-street","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/two-dead-13-injured-after-gunman-opens-fire-on-toronto-street\/","title":{"rendered":"Two Dead, 13 Injured After Gunman Opens Fire on Toronto Street"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"\">\n<p><strong>Police identified the gunman, who died in a shootout, but wouldn\u2019t speculate on a motive<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Authorities identified <a href=\"news\/faisal-hussain-idd-as-terrorist-in-deadly-toronto-attack-special-investigations-unit-says\" target=\"_blank\">Faisal Hussain<\/a>, 29, of Toronto as the gunman who opened fire on a busy Toronto street late Sunday night in a shooting spree that killed an 18-year-old woman and a 10-year old girl.<\/p>\n<p>Thirteen others were injured in the rampage on a bustling commercial strip in Toronto\u2019s east side.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" height=\"315\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/CTRVa206u2c\" width=\"560\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>On Monday, police declined to speculate on the shooter\u2019s motivation. Mr. Hussain\u2019s family issued an email statement to local news outlets, saying they are devastated by what happened and suggested that their son was struggling with severe mental-health challenges, including psychosis and depression.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe are at a terrible loss for words but we must speak out to express our deepest condolences to the families who are now suffering on account of our son\u2019s horrific actions,\u201d the family\u2019s statement said. \u201cWhile we did our best to seek help for him throughout his life of struggle and pain, we could never imagine that this would be his devastating and destructive end.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>A total of 16 people were shot, including Mr. Hussain, who died after a shootout with police officers. Authorities had initially said 15 people were shot.<\/p>\n<p>The victims ranged in age from 10 to 59 years old, said Detective Sgt. Terry Browne, who is leading the police\u2019s investigation. Some of the victims are suffering from \u201clife-changing injuries,\u201d he said, but declined to elaborate.<\/p>\n<p>The shooter was&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/redice.tv\/news\/two-dead-13-injured-after-gunman-opens-fire-on-toronto-street\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Police identified the gunman, who died in a shootout, but wouldn\u2019t speculate on a motive Authorities identified Faisal Hussain, 29, of Toronto as the gunman who opened fire on a busy Toronto street late Sunday night in a shooting spree that killed an 18-year-old woman and a 10-year old girl. Thirteen others were injured in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2520,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[519],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-370591","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-newswire"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/370591","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2520"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=370591"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/370591\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=370591"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=370591"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=370591"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}