Components have begun to emerge about Alek Minassian, who was charged Tuesday with 10 computes of first-degree murder and 13 of attempted murder for driving a van into a pushed sidewalk in Toronto. Here is a look at the 25-year-old suspect in one of the worst concretion killings in Canada’s modern history.
Minassian lived with his ones nearest in the Toronto suburb of Richmond Hill, on a street of sizeable, well-tended slab homes. Police say he had no criminal record before Monday.
His father, Vahe Minassian, be of valued and seemed stunned as he watched as his son, showing little emotion, make a transitory court appearance Tuesday and be ordered held without bail.
When his progenitor was asked later whether he had any message for the families of the people killed and abuse, he said quietly: “I’m sorry.”
Minassian attended Seneca College, according to his LinkedIn earn; a spokeswoman for the Toronto-area school didn’t immediately respond to an inquiry thither him Tuesday. Another student, Joseph Pham, told The Toronto Supernova that Minassian was in a computer programming class with him just continue week.
Pham described Minassian as a “socially awkward” student who shrouded to himself: “He didn’t really talk to anyone.”
Before college, Minassian attended Thornlea Reserve School in Richmond Hill, graduating in 2011. A Thornlea classmate, Ari Blaff, pull the plug oned CBC News he recalls Minassian was “sort of in the background,” not the center of any particular heap of friends.
“He wasn’t overly social,” Blaff told the news broadcaster.
Both Thornlea and Seneca went to discuss him Tuesday.
Minassian joined the Canadian Armed Forces most recent year, but his stay was brief.
The Department of National Defence says he was a fellow of the military from Aug. 23 to Oct. 25, but didn’t complete his recruit guiding. He asked to be voluntarily released after 16 days, the department turned.
Shortly before Monday’s attack on a crowded Toronto street, a cold post appeared on Minassian’s now-deleted Facebook account saluting Elliot Rodger, a community college learner who killed six people and wounded 13 in shooting and stabbing attacks neighbourhood of the University of California, Santa Barbara, before apparently shooting himself to extermination in 2014.
Calling Rodger “the Supreme Gentleman,” the Facebook post declared: “The Incel Insurgency has already begun! We will overthrow all the Chads and Stacys!”
The 22-year-old Rodger had tempered to the term “incel” — for involuntarily celibate — in online posts wax at women for rejecting him romantically. Like-minded people in internet forums on occasion use “Chad” and “Stacy” as dismissive slang for men and women with more rich sex lives.
Monday’s Facebook post mentions that “Private (Tiro) Minassian” is speaking, and Facebook confirmed that the post was on an account that be a part ofed to the suspect. The social networking site took down his account after the inroad, saying in a statement Tuesday, “There is absolutely no place on our platform for man who commit such horrendous acts.”