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While the city was reeling from its worst murder spree, the man charged with the gruesome crimes sat in the Toronto South Detention Centre not expressing one ounce of regret for the victims, according to sources.

But Alek Minassian, who faces 10 counts of murder and 13 of attempted murder, did express regret that the Toronto Police officer hailed as a hero didn’t shoot him.

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“He wanted to be shot,” said a person inside the jail who had a conversation with him.

The 25-year-old Richmond Hill man told several people that he had researched being taken out by police after committing a serious crime.

He said he “looked up on the Internet ‘death by cop,’” someone who talked with him told the Toronto Sun.

He told people he “knew what he (allegedly) did” and was ready to die.

Const. Ken Lam didn’t oblige him. Instead he took him down and brought him into 32 Division.

After his appearance in the Finch courts, which Sun columnist Michele Mandel described as taking 10 minutes, Minassian was transported to the Toronto South jail, where people who saw him described him as “odd” and “socially awkward.”