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The sentencing hearing for the man responsible for the 2018 Toronto van attack that left 10 people dead and 16 others wounded will not proceed until next year.
Published Friday, April 23, 2021 5:32AM EDT Last Updated Friday, April 23, 2021 12:31PM EDT TORONTO - The victims of a van attack that devastated Toronto will never be forgotten, the city s mayor said Friday as he marked three years since the tragedy took place. John Tory said the city will honour those killed and injured in the 2018 rampage every year in an effort to keep their memories alive. “We cannot and we will not forget the memory of those who were taken from us by this cowardly and deliberate attack,” he said. Ten people died and 16 others were hurt, many catastrophically, on April 23, 2018 after a man drove a rental van down a sidewalk in the city s north end in an effort to kill as many people as possible.
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Nearly three years after he deliberately ran down pedestrians on Toronto’s busy Yonge Street, killing 10 people and injuring many others, a 28-year-old man has been convicted of carrying out the deadliest mass killing in the city’s history.
After a seven-week trial held virtually last fall as a result of the COVID-19 pandemic, a judge on Wednesday found Alek Minassian guilty on 10 charges of first-degree murder and 16 of attempted murder.