The Toronto Police released a 23-page report into their investigation into the July 22, 2018, Danforth shooting by Faisal Hussain. The report is detailed, as one would expect, but the single-paragraph conclusion, stating they were unable to find a motive, left more questions than the previous 22 pages answered.
00:00:00.000The Toronto Police this week released a 23-page report into their investigation into the July 22, 2018 Rampage Danforth shooting by 29-year-old Faisal Hussain.
00:00:21.460The report is detailed, as one would expect, but the single-paragraph conclusion, stating they were unable to find a motive, left more questions than the previous 22 pages answered.
00:00:33.620The report details all of the items seized by the police in their initial search of the Thorncliffe apartment, where the shooter lived with his Pakistani-born parents.
00:00:43.620Clearly, there was evidence turned up in the investigation that Hussain dealt drugs.
00:00:47.740But they also turned up magazines and ammunition for weapons never found.
00:00:53.500The report doesn't explain why that was, why the weapons were never found, or what efforts were taken to try and track them down.
00:01:02.540Chief among these is the AK-47 semi-automatic rifle associated to the loaded AK magazine that they did find.
00:01:12.440They also found loaded magazines for other weapons, and no info was provided relative to the weapons that they were for.
00:01:21.640The report refers to searching for a storage locker, but provides no further information.
00:01:26.960The police refer to foreign travel done by Hussain, but the report doesn't explain anything further.
00:01:35.020We know from media reports at the time, citing police sources, that he had traveled to Pakistan, but we don't know exactly when or for how long.
00:01:44.100And the report doesn't detail anything further, save and accept to say that detectives are prepared to travel wherever as needed.
00:01:52.160That seems a little strange to me, inasmuch as Canada has intelligence assets in Pakistan that track the movements of Canadians coming and going, what they do, who they meet, and that sort of thing.
00:02:07.760One would think that the Toronto Police would have followed that line of investigation, and perhaps they did.
00:02:13.140The problem with that, and I said this at the time in viewing videos of the active shooter situation, is that he must have had some level of training.
00:02:28.400He calmly walked through the streets of Toronto's Greek town, indiscriminately firing into shops, restaurants, and at pedestrians that he encountered.
00:02:35.420We know he had at least seven magazines for the Smith & Wesson .40 cal semi-auto pistol he was using.
00:02:43.400He purchased those in April, according to the police report.
00:02:46.900This would have given him somewhere between 70 and 105 rounds of ammunition, depending on the size of the clips.
00:02:54.580Clearly in the video, he is seen emptying the weapon, and as he continued calmly walking, ejecting spent magazines,
00:03:02.040inserting another, racking a new round, and shooting more.
00:03:06.520This would be totally, in my view, virtually impossible for a neophyte to guns to do.
00:03:13.640Police uncovered nothing to indicate he had any training, or indeed the appropriate documentation Canadians need to purchase firearms,