A big ask: have pity for shooter’s family

Toronto police identified Faisal Hussain, the 29-year-old man who opened fire with a handgun in Toronto’s Greektown neighbourhood on July 22, left at least two dead, and injuring 13 others. Toronto police exchanged gunfire with the man who fled the area but was found dead in a nearby alley. It's unclear if he died by suicide or was killed by police. CBC screen capture image

Opinion

BY ROSIE DIMANNO

July 30, 2018

TORONTO—A tombstone: One child. A freshly dug grave: Another child. A hospital room, its occupant forever oblivious, somewhere in the hovering world between life and death: Another child. How any family can bear so many tragedies is beyond imagining. With the added burden of two murders and mu...

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