Case overview
On 23 April 2018, a driver steered a rented van onto sidewalks along Yonge Street in Toronto’s North York district. Ten people were killed and sixteen were injured in the attack as counted in the criminal trial. [1]
The Ontario Superior Court found the driver guilty in 2021 after rejecting his claim that he was not criminally responsible. He received a mandatory life sentence in 2022. A person who had remained hospitalized after the attack died in 2021; later public accounts therefore describe eleven deaths. [2]
