Toronto driver charged with 10 counts of 1st degree murder
By CHARMAINE NORONHA, Associated Press
Published: April 24, 2018, 9:35am
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Officials carry a body into a vehicle after a van mounted a sidewalk crashing into pedestrians in Toronto on Monday. The rented van jumped onto the crowded sidewalk Monday, killing and injuring people before the driver fled and was quickly arrested in a confrontation with police, Canadian authorities said. (Aaron Vincent Elkaim/The Canadian Press via AP) Photo Gallery
TORONTO — The 25-year-old suspect who plowed a van into a crowded Toronto sidewalk was ordered held Tuesday on 10 counts of murder and 13 of attempted murder as Canadian authorities and the public sought to make sense of one of the deadliest mass killings in the country’s modern history.
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