Face of Nation : It has been one year since tragedy struck Toronto’s Greektown. On the evening of July 22, 2018, bullets rang out along Danforth Avenue striking people walking and dining in the busy area.
The mass shooting left 10-year-old Julianna Kozis and 18-year-old Reese Fallon dead and 13 others injured. The gunman was found dead following a brief exchange of gunfire with responding officers. Police later confirmed he died from a self-inflicted gunshot wound and carried out the attack alone.
Just after the attack the city of Toronto came together to comfort the families of the victims and heal, Mayor John Tory said on Monday, and that healing process will continue with a sunset vigil being held on Monday night to mark the sad milestone.
“It was still a sad tragedy the next day but it turned into something where the healing had already begun because people themselves decided to go out and start that healing process,” he said.
“I went back the next day to the Danforth and there was no urging, there was no major call out, people just showed up to show their solidarity with the victims, but also to show their solidarity with the community.” Tory said initially arriving at the scene of the deadly attack on that summer night made him feel numb.
“When I got there, when I say it was chaos that’s not a commentary at all on what all the first responders were doing, everybody was there; fire, paramedics and of course police,” he said. “They were managing it in an extremely professional manner but it was just chaotic because you had all of those people involved.”
