Another Shooting in Toronto-What a Dump That Place Is
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You really think they are going to tell us the truth ?
They already got the big lie of mental illness out within 24 hours.
That would have kept the death rate down to ... oh, I don't know ... say around two killed if some Wyatt Earp happened to be on the scene and reacted almost immediately. That's a damned good reason for Canadians to be slingin' loaded .45s in holsters.
My condolences to the families and victims.
Canadians can do better than turning this into something political or racial.
Very sad to see such a wonderful city and one of Canada’s top tourist destinations tarnished with such hate.
Canadians can do better than turning this into something political or racial.
Very sad to see such a wonderful city and one of Canada’s top tourist destinations tarnished with such hate.
Yeah google toronto shooter mentally challenged and our fake news outlets faithfully report same when rank and file know full well he was an agent of some nefarious outfit trained to promote hate and instil fear.
TORONTO — Statement from the family of Faisal Hussain, who died after shooting 15 people, two fatally, in Toronto on Sunday night:
"We 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's horrific actions.
"We are utterly devastated by the incomprehensible news that our son was responsible for the senseless violence and loss of life that took place on the Danforth.
"Our son had severe mental health challenges, struggling with psychosis and depression his entire life. The interventions of professionals were unsuccessful. Medications and therapy were unable to treat him. While 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.
"Our hearts are in pieces for the victims and for our city as we all come to grips with this terrible tragedy. We will mourn those who were lost for the rest of our lives.
"Hussain Family"
That's one helluva statement.
Wonder if they had help in writing it.
We don't know yet how the attacker saw himself in this. Arguably, every terrorist is "mentally ill". Even if he was deranged, if he claims that he is on some kind of avenging jihad, that means that he was inspired by (perhaps abetted by) radicals who exploited his sickness. We don't know enough yet and may never know the truth because if the authorities release informtion that he was in contact with radicals, the terrorists win a victory of sorts. Also, the authorities will take all the time that they want to hunt down any possible cells and that might take a year or two.
WOW, now that's a VERY STUPID communist question...if the gun wasn't legally his, and he used it illegally, why use this incident as an excuse to screw legal gun owners, who use their guns LEGALLY, out of their LEGAL guns like an illegal criminal communist would do?
...unless you are after the children...
Yes, cuz legal guns keep us safe from the gubmint. Just ask any victims of genocide if they would have been better off to have had guns to protect themselves from their gubmint.
What he neglected to say is that those guns were stolen from legal gun owners., seems a public gun registry is a prime time shopping guide for criminals. Who knew?
They gave up their security for safety and wound up with neither.
At least they now know who they should be most afraid of . Silver lining and all that.
WARMINGTON: Tattoo shop owner dinged with $7Gs bill after Danforth shooting
Joe Warmington
More from Joe Warmington
Published:
July 28, 2018
Updated:
July 28, 2018 11:51 AM EDT
For Tanya Wilson, the cost of being a hero is at least $7,000.
And perhaps, lost business, if she can’t find a way to get it back open.
The good news is Mayor John Tory has heard about her plight and assistance may be on the way.
“I didn’t really want to have any focus on me in light of the fact that people died and others are injured,” the 30-year-old tattoo artist said in an interview.
But the reality is her Skin Deep Tattoo studio at 345 Danforth Ave. remained closed again Thursday.
Thanks to her bravely opening up her shop as a safe sanctuary during last Sunday’s deadly shooting spree that killed two people and wounded 13 others, two victims are alive today.
Screengrab of GoFundMe for Tanya Wilson. GoFundMe)
“It was a mother and her (adult) son,” Wilson said. “They had both been shot in the leg.”
Wilson, who has been in business two years, brought them in, locked the door and began treating them. She said she tied T-shirts around the top of the gunshot wounds while she called 911 for help.
“I just tried to calm them down.”
She said it took about an hour for EMS to get to them, but “Toronto Police officers did a great job helping out.”
They had tourniquets as part of their equipment and applied them.
The problem now is because blood was spilled in her studio, and thanks to the nature of her tattoo business, she’s been shut down until a professional crime scene cleaning company sterilizes her studio and equipment.
“I understand,” she said.
The problem is it costs a minimum $7,000.
“It’s a lot of money for a small business like mine.”
She has consulted her insurance and has been told that it could cost her even more should she pay her deductibles and endure the higher rates that will stem from such a critical incident happening there. It’s the kind of dilemma no one could possibly foresee.
But Tory, who “believes she is a hero,” has stepped in to see what the city can do to help out the businesswoman. The mayor’s office has “been speaking to city officials and Toronto Police about what happened and what can be done to help,” Tory spokesman Don Peat said.
“I can tell you that city officials from the Community Crisis Response Program are working to reach out to Tanya Wilson and want to help her reopen her business,” Peat said.
On Wednesday, Tory told city council, “Tanya Wilson … helped people find safe harbour in her Danforth business and helped to treat two people who had been shot, until paramedics could arrive.”
This will add to the crowdfunding campaign her friends started to help her get back on her feet.
Wilson told me she’s appreciative but not all that comfortable with a fundraising effort.
“I think there are others in this who are in more need of help,” she said.
It’s still unclear how much it will cost to get her shop operational, but Toronto Police spokesman Meaghan Gray said Wilson may be eligible for some financial help from Victim Services Toronto.
Whatever is done, the goal is to get her back up and running at her Skin Deep Tattoo as soon as possible.
CLOSE ENCOUNTER WITH KILLER
He could have easily been one of the victims in her shop.
A business owner whose restaurant is around the corner from Tanya Wilson’s Skin Deep Tattoo — has been supporting Wilson in her quest to get her doors back open.
Mr. Singh (he asked that his first name not be used), the owner of legendary Sher-E-Punjab restaurant, commended Wilson on her bravery for “helping out” badly wounded victims –something he came very close to being himself.
Extremely close.
He was walking toward his restaurant Sunday night when shooter Faisal Hussain came up behind him.
“He was following me. When we got to the end of the alleyway, he said, ‘Don’t worry, I am not going to shoot you,’” Singh recalled.
Singh said he responded to Faisal with a “thanks” and when the two men got closer together, “We looked at each. He said to stay out of his way — not as a threat, but as a warning.”
He doesn’t know why Hussain didn’t shoot him, but said “my heart breaks” for all of the victims of the killer, whom he had such a frightening close encounter with.
jwarmington@postmedia.com
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http://gofundme.com/help-tanya-wilson-with
http://torontosun.com/news/local-ne...wner-dinged-with-7000-after-danforth-shooting
Danforth mass shooting victim may never walk again
Jane Stevenson
More from Jane Stevenson
Published:
July 27, 2018
Updated:
July 27, 2018 5:57 PM EDT
Danielle "Dani" Kane, 31, suffered a life-altering injury and may never walk again after being among the 15 victims shot in Greektow, on the Danforth, on Sunday, July 22, 2018. (GoFundMe)
A 31-year-old Toronto woman who used to work in the ER might never be able to walk again after becoming one of the 15 victims in Sunday night’s Danforth mass shooting.
According to the #DaniStrong GoFundMe page, Danielle “Dani” Kane, previously an ER clerk at Toronto East General who just completed first year as a nursing student, was out dining with her boyfriend and TEG nurse Jeremy Pinksen, at 7Numbers restaurant with a good friend.
The trio heard gunshots and someone came running inside saying a girl had been shot.
Pinksen went running outside to help and met eye-to-eye with the shooter, now identified as 29-year-old Faisal Hussain who later died.
“He recalls hearing a clicking sound and seeing him lift his arms towards him,” write the Kane Family on the GoFundMe page.
“He ducked behind a patio table but then heard a scream. Dani had just opened the door and was shot in the doorway of the restaurant. Her boyfriend looked over to see her on the ground, went to her and brought her back inside the restaurant with the help of others. He began administering first aid.”
According to her family, Kane was the last civilian shot that evening. The bullet shattered her T11 vertebrae, and pierced her stomach and diaphram.
Danielle “Dani” Kane, 31, suffered a life-altering injury and may never walk again after being among the 15 victims shot in Greektow, on the Danforth, on Sunday, July 22, 2018. (Twitter)
They say she’s undergone three surgeries, with a fourth one to go, and is expected to survive but may never walk again.
She is described by her family as someone in constant movement who loves to travel, hike and dance.
“Dani’s smile and infectious energy, lights up every room. She’s a lively, rambunctious, determined and ambitious young woman,” they write on the GoFundMe page.
“And her natural generosity and warmth gives her the special ability to make everyone she meets feel important and loved. Now, at the young age of 31, Dani faces the most difficult challenge of her life. “
The GoFundMe Page, set up by Kane’s cousin Byron Abalos, had reached $75,540 of its $100,000 goal by late Friday afternoon.
“Dani left the safety of the restaurant to see if she could help someone in need,” her family writes. “This is who she is. We are proud of her courageous and selfless act and yet, we are also unsurprised at her actions because she always stands up for those who need help. Now, we ask you to help stand up for Dani.”
Abalos told CBC news he was “completely devastated, like the rest of our family,” by the shooting.
“It’s still unbelievable. She’s hooked up to dozens of machines, her body is a bit pale and it’s puffy from all the fluid.”
Abalos told the CBC Pinksen “is incredible (but) he does not want this to be about him and his actions and there’s complicated feelings about this decision to go out and her following him. But to me they were both doing something to help someone else.”
jstevenson@postmedia.com
http://gofundme.com/danistrong
http://torontosun.com/news/local-news/danforth-mass-shooting-victim-may-never-walk-again
Joe Warmington
More from Joe Warmington
Published:
July 28, 2018
Updated:
July 28, 2018 11:51 AM EDT
For Tanya Wilson, the cost of being a hero is at least $7,000.
And perhaps, lost business, if she can’t find a way to get it back open.
The good news is Mayor John Tory has heard about her plight and assistance may be on the way.
“I didn’t really want to have any focus on me in light of the fact that people died and others are injured,” the 30-year-old tattoo artist said in an interview.
But the reality is her Skin Deep Tattoo studio at 345 Danforth Ave. remained closed again Thursday.
Thanks to her bravely opening up her shop as a safe sanctuary during last Sunday’s deadly shooting spree that killed two people and wounded 13 others, two victims are alive today.
Screengrab of GoFundMe for Tanya Wilson. GoFundMe)
“It was a mother and her (adult) son,” Wilson said. “They had both been shot in the leg.”
Wilson, who has been in business two years, brought them in, locked the door and began treating them. She said she tied T-shirts around the top of the gunshot wounds while she called 911 for help.
“I just tried to calm them down.”
She said it took about an hour for EMS to get to them, but “Toronto Police officers did a great job helping out.”
They had tourniquets as part of their equipment and applied them.
The problem now is because blood was spilled in her studio, and thanks to the nature of her tattoo business, she’s been shut down until a professional crime scene cleaning company sterilizes her studio and equipment.
“I understand,” she said.
The problem is it costs a minimum $7,000.
“It’s a lot of money for a small business like mine.”
She has consulted her insurance and has been told that it could cost her even more should she pay her deductibles and endure the higher rates that will stem from such a critical incident happening there. It’s the kind of dilemma no one could possibly foresee.
But Tory, who “believes she is a hero,” has stepped in to see what the city can do to help out the businesswoman. The mayor’s office has “been speaking to city officials and Toronto Police about what happened and what can be done to help,” Tory spokesman Don Peat said.
“I can tell you that city officials from the Community Crisis Response Program are working to reach out to Tanya Wilson and want to help her reopen her business,” Peat said.
On Wednesday, Tory told city council, “Tanya Wilson … helped people find safe harbour in her Danforth business and helped to treat two people who had been shot, until paramedics could arrive.”
This will add to the crowdfunding campaign her friends started to help her get back on her feet.
Wilson told me she’s appreciative but not all that comfortable with a fundraising effort.
“I think there are others in this who are in more need of help,” she said.
It’s still unclear how much it will cost to get her shop operational, but Toronto Police spokesman Meaghan Gray said Wilson may be eligible for some financial help from Victim Services Toronto.
Whatever is done, the goal is to get her back up and running at her Skin Deep Tattoo as soon as possible.
CLOSE ENCOUNTER WITH KILLER
He could have easily been one of the victims in her shop.
A business owner whose restaurant is around the corner from Tanya Wilson’s Skin Deep Tattoo — has been supporting Wilson in her quest to get her doors back open.
Mr. Singh (he asked that his first name not be used), the owner of legendary Sher-E-Punjab restaurant, commended Wilson on her bravery for “helping out” badly wounded victims –something he came very close to being himself.
Extremely close.
He was walking toward his restaurant Sunday night when shooter Faisal Hussain came up behind him.
“He was following me. When we got to the end of the alleyway, he said, ‘Don’t worry, I am not going to shoot you,’” Singh recalled.
Singh said he responded to Faisal with a “thanks” and when the two men got closer together, “We looked at each. He said to stay out of his way — not as a threat, but as a warning.”
He doesn’t know why Hussain didn’t shoot him, but said “my heart breaks” for all of the victims of the killer, whom he had such a frightening close encounter with.
jwarmington@postmedia.com
[youtube]Q1ZC_U1tbNA[/youtube]
http://gofundme.com/help-tanya-wilson-with
http://torontosun.com/news/local-ne...wner-dinged-with-7000-after-danforth-shooting
Danforth mass shooting victim may never walk again
Jane Stevenson
More from Jane Stevenson
Published:
July 27, 2018
Updated:
July 27, 2018 5:57 PM EDT
Danielle "Dani" Kane, 31, suffered a life-altering injury and may never walk again after being among the 15 victims shot in Greektow, on the Danforth, on Sunday, July 22, 2018. (GoFundMe)
A 31-year-old Toronto woman who used to work in the ER might never be able to walk again after becoming one of the 15 victims in Sunday night’s Danforth mass shooting.
According to the #DaniStrong GoFundMe page, Danielle “Dani” Kane, previously an ER clerk at Toronto East General who just completed first year as a nursing student, was out dining with her boyfriend and TEG nurse Jeremy Pinksen, at 7Numbers restaurant with a good friend.
The trio heard gunshots and someone came running inside saying a girl had been shot.
Pinksen went running outside to help and met eye-to-eye with the shooter, now identified as 29-year-old Faisal Hussain who later died.
“He recalls hearing a clicking sound and seeing him lift his arms towards him,” write the Kane Family on the GoFundMe page.
“He ducked behind a patio table but then heard a scream. Dani had just opened the door and was shot in the doorway of the restaurant. Her boyfriend looked over to see her on the ground, went to her and brought her back inside the restaurant with the help of others. He began administering first aid.”
According to her family, Kane was the last civilian shot that evening. The bullet shattered her T11 vertebrae, and pierced her stomach and diaphram.
Danielle “Dani” Kane, 31, suffered a life-altering injury and may never walk again after being among the 15 victims shot in Greektow, on the Danforth, on Sunday, July 22, 2018. (Twitter)
They say she’s undergone three surgeries, with a fourth one to go, and is expected to survive but may never walk again.
She is described by her family as someone in constant movement who loves to travel, hike and dance.
“Dani’s smile and infectious energy, lights up every room. She’s a lively, rambunctious, determined and ambitious young woman,” they write on the GoFundMe page.
“And her natural generosity and warmth gives her the special ability to make everyone she meets feel important and loved. Now, at the young age of 31, Dani faces the most difficult challenge of her life. “
The GoFundMe Page, set up by Kane’s cousin Byron Abalos, had reached $75,540 of its $100,000 goal by late Friday afternoon.
“Dani left the safety of the restaurant to see if she could help someone in need,” her family writes. “This is who she is. We are proud of her courageous and selfless act and yet, we are also unsurprised at her actions because she always stands up for those who need help. Now, we ask you to help stand up for Dani.”
Abalos told CBC news he was “completely devastated, like the rest of our family,” by the shooting.
“It’s still unbelievable. She’s hooked up to dozens of machines, her body is a bit pale and it’s puffy from all the fluid.”
Abalos told the CBC Pinksen “is incredible (but) he does not want this to be about him and his actions and there’s complicated feelings about this decision to go out and her following him. But to me they were both doing something to help someone else.”
jstevenson@postmedia.com
http://gofundme.com/danistrong
http://torontosun.com/news/local-news/danforth-mass-shooting-victim-may-never-walk-again
Oh fer Chrissake, if he hadn't attended he would have been criticized for not attending.
Give yer head a shake, Hoss.