Toronto terror. Nine Dead. Sixteen injured. Authorities confirm it was a terrorist attack. Witnesses describe the attacker as looking “Middle Eastern”. Authorities don’t know the motive for the slaughter.
UPDATED: The killer has been identified as 25-year-old Alek Minassian.
What Happened
The driver of a white van collided with multiple pedestrians on a busy street north of downtown Toronto on Monday, leaving numerous people injured along a trail of destruction stretching up to a mile, officials said.
The latest details on a van plowing into multiple pedestrians in Toronto. Catherine Herridge reports. pic.twitter.com/70mAHUvFZJ
— Fox News (@FoxNews) April 23, 2018
Eyewitness Accounts
“I couldn’t believe what I’d seen… all these people on the streets getting hit one by one” Toronto collision eyewitness describes moment van driver mounted the kerb and struck pedestrians https://t.co/26YbDX2P1S pic.twitter.com/Q2nRWktVI4
— BBC Breaking News (@BBCBreaking) April 23, 2018
“People were shouting stop the car” – Eyewitness describes seeing the van hitting pedestrians https://t.co/26YbDX2P1S pic.twitter.com/xBoky7TAij
— BBC Breaking News (@BBCBreaking) April 23, 2018
“We saw the last people get hit” – a witness describes the moment a van struck several pedestrians in #Toronto pic.twitter.com/vOqjWxk3XP
— Sky News (@SkyNews) April 23, 2018
Killer Aprehended
REALLY sounds like he’s saying “kill me, I’ve got a gun in my pocket, shoot me in the head”#toronto #torontoattack pic.twitter.com/RcxkMufNxb
— Kek_Magician (@Keque_Mage) April 23, 2018
Reactions to the Media Calling it a ‘Van Attack’
Media needs to stop calling it a “van attack.” If deliberate – and all signs point to the Toronto attack being deliberate – then an evil person decided to kill innocent people. That’s not a “van attack.”
— Spencer Fernando 🇨🇦 (@SpencerFernando) April 23, 2018
Toronto
Let’s go slow now. We’re talking to Democrats.
So there was a human being involved? Behind the wheel? Driving? The van didn’t do it, correct? I get it now.
I had planned a big march against vans. Was gonna get all the kids involved to make my point.
Never mind.
— First Words (@unscriptedmike) April 23, 2018
Denial of terror in the name of Islam is the standard response. It only encourages the enemy. Car ramming attacks were used by Muslim terrorists in Israel, yet the world would not stand up strongly in Israel’s defense. Now those attacks are happening across the Western world. The world should have come to Israel’s defense. Those in the Muslim world are attacking us all for the same reason, yet the Western elite prefer to deny that as well.