Toronto police say they still have many unanswered questions more than 24 hours after a van attack killed 10 people and injured 14 more in a bustling area north of the downtown core.
As officers comb through the massive crime scene for evidence, some areas in the North York neighbourhood where 25-year-old Alek Minassian allegedly carried out the rampage remain off limits. A more detailed picture is beginning to emerge, however, of where the chaos began, how it unfolded over the course of about 25 minutes, and how it ended2.
Here’s what eyewitness accounts, police briefings and photographs tell us so far about what happened.bb
The deadly drive began at Finch Avenue and Yonge Street. Witnesses recounted that a white rental vehicle suddenly mounted the sidewalk at the southwest corner of the intersection, near a Korean barbecue restaurant, and slammed into pedestrians. The first call to police came in at 1:27 p.m.
From there, the van’s path south along Yonge Street took it through several more busy intersections, past condominium towers, banks, restaurants, coffee shops, local businesses, and the bustling lawns and sidewalks around Mel Lastman Square.
Bodies covered by tarps were later pictured outside the Korean restaurant and near the Bank of Montreal at Tolman Street, one block south of where the carnage began. More victims seemingly fell at Kempford Boulevard and Empress Avenue, and then several more were hit on the wide sidewalk at the foot of Mel Lastman Square.
From there, the van’s path south along Yonge Street took it through several more busy intersections, past condominium towers, banks, restaurants, coffee shops, local businesses, and the bustling lawns and sidewalks around Mel Lastman Square.
Bodies covered by tarps were later pictured outside the Korean restaurant and near the Bank of Montreal at Tolman Street, one block south of where the carnage began. More victims seemingly fell at Kempford Boulevard and Empress Avenue, and then several more were hit on the wide sidewalk at the foot of Mel Lastman Square.
From there, the van’s path south along Yonge Street took it through several more busy intersections, past condominium towers, banks, restaurants, coffee shops, local businesses, and the bustling lawns and sidewalks around Mel Lastman Square.
Bodies covered by tarps were later pictured outside the Korean restaurant and near
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