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It’s been nearly a week since the deadly Danforth shooting, leaving two beautiful girls dead and countless others suffering.

And yet, we barely know more now than we did the day after the attack.

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Toronto Police are being deliberately tight-lipped. As Detective Sergeant Terry Brown smugly told a news conference on Monday, he refused to release information about the shooter because “there would be a frenzy on social media.”

Eventually, the special unit investigators released the killer’s name: Faisal Hussain, a 29-year-old man who lived with his Pakistani immigrant parents in a poorly integrated Muslim enclave in Toronto.

While we still know very little about the motive of the shooter, two distinct media narratives have emerged.

One comes from the CBC and other leftist outlets: That Hussain was “severely mentally ill” and not responsible for his deranged actions; and another, from media outlets who take a realist approach: That Hussain had gang ties, was a highly skilled gunman, was perhaps interested in ISIS and was known to police.