WATCH ABOVE: Catherine McDonald reports on the latest on the triple murder of a mother and her two sons from Thorncliffe Park.
TORONTO – Police said Wednesday the man who was killed on the Don Valley Parkway Saturday was the husband and father of the three people found dead in a Thorncliffe apartment.
Police identified Yusuf Abdille, 50, in a press release Wednesday afternoon. Police said he was struck by a man driving a Toyota Prius in the southbound lanes of the DVP near the Millwood Bridge.
Zahra Mohamoud Abdille and her two sons Faris and Zain were found dead inside a Thorncliffe Park apartment on Saturday. Police have not released the cause of death.
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Police are still investigating Yusuf’s “involvement in the homicides.”
Zahra had tried to escape her husband last year. She and her two sons spent at least three weeks in an emergency shelter in 2013, Global News learned Tuesday.
Dr. Roz Roach, the executive director of the shelter, said Zahra had left her husband at the time but eventually left the shelter. Roach didn’t know Zahra had returned to her husband after leaving the shelter.
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