1/After Faisal Hussain opened fire on people enjoying a summer night along the Danforth, a popular strip of Toronto, I tried to get a copy of the police warrant to search his family’s apartment.
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2/I wasn’t looking for what they found, per se, but what they expected to find and why.
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3/The court system in Canada feels as antiquated as the Old City Hall courthouse. You can’t get any of this stuff on-line. You have to go in person. So I went.
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4/And for $1, I got a copy of the judge’s order sealing both the warrant and the police’s explanation for why they should get a warrant. You won't believe what the process was the pay the $1, but that's another story.pic.twitter.com/6FQziLC1Xb
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5/The New York Times hired a lawyer to challenge the sealing order. A bunch of other news agencies joined in on the lawsuit. And weeks later, we won.
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6/The warrant requests did not show us what we’d hoped for – information about Faisal Hussain's suspected motive, and whether police suspected he was linked to terrorists or not. But they did turn up some grisly details.
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7/Like this: One witness saw Faisal Hussain stand over a female victim and shoot her four times. Minutes later, he waved away a man on his path and casually said, “Don’t worry, I’m not going to shoot you.”
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8/And this: At the end, Faisal Hussain shot himself in the head. Then his cell phone rang with the word "home" flashing on its screen.
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9/And also this: When police searched Toronto shooter Faisal Hussain's bedroom, they found four more cell phones and a bag of white powder.
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10/ You can read the rest here. Good night!https://www.nytimes.com/2018/09/20/world/canada/toronto-gunman-faisal-hussain.html …
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