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It has now been 172 days, or more than five months, since Faisal Hussain took his lethal walk along the Danforth on a Toronto summer’s evening.

By the time his rampage ended, two fine young people, 10-year-old Julianna Kozis and 18-year-old Reese Fallon, were dead, and 13 others were injured, some seriously. Hussain himself was also dead, it appears by his own hand, according to Toronto Police documents that were unsealed by court order in September.

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Those documents provided the only hard information about the mass shooting or the shooter — or at least about what the Toronto Police were seeking to search in Hussain’s apartment — that has been released to the public to date.

Because the province’s Special Investigations Unit took the lead on the investigation — there were reports that two Toronto officers had exchanged gunfire with Hussain before he allegedly took his own life, and the SIU’s mandate is to probe any lethal or serious interaction with police — the Toronto force is seriously hamstrung about what it can say about the shooting.