...significantly,though... not by Canadian lapdog media...
CBS News sources identified the suspect as Alek Minassian, 25, and obtained a photo of him from social media Monday evening.Apparently Alek was taking the 7 year college degree program...
According to his LinkedIn, Minassian was a student at Seneca College in Richmond Hill, Ontario, Canada from 2011-2018.FWIW, this appears to be an Armenian name.
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“There was a girl near me just 10 feet away and he just ran right over her, I”m sure she’s dead. He just kept on going and people were flying everywhere.”**********
“A couple blocks further there was a man lying in the road. He had been hit by a vehicle. His shoes were like 100 feet away up the road, he’d obviously been hit very hard and flung far. I checked for vital signs, he appeared to be deceased.”
UPDATE: Killer in custody
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"Time for a ban on assault vans. And vehicle rental agencies must be required to do background checks."And Premier Wynndfarm has chimed in...
"Hearing a number of people have been hurt at Yonge and Finch."Hmmm... you mean the 10 people who've been killed, or the 16 others in hospital, Premier?
Meanwhile, over at Canada's Post-National broadcaster...
"I almost had a heart attack. When I came here people told me it was a safe country and that's why I stayed here," said Amir Bahmeyeh, who said he'd come from Iran. "Now, I saw the accident, maybe I go back my country."