Gunman in Toronto shooting was not evil, but 'broken' by fraud dispute: wife
CTV
The wife of the gunman in Monday's double murder-suicide in North York says she doesn't consider her husband an evil person, but one who was 'broken' by a lengthy fraud dispute that saw their family savings drained.
The wife of the gunman in Monday's double murder-suicide in North York says she doesn’t consider her husband an evil person, but one who was “broken" by a lengthy fraud dispute that saw their family savings drained.
The incident happened just before 3:30 p.m. in the lobby of an office building near Don Mills and Mallard roads, south of York Mills Road.
“He just couldn't believe that we were scammed for all our money and, since it's happened, [...] he was in depression. He couldn't take it,” Alisa Pogorelovsky said in an interview with CTV News Toronto on Wednesday.
Police have identified the two victims of the shooting as 54-year-old Arash Missaghi and 44-year-old Samira Yousefi. Alan Kats, who was 46, took his own life at the scene.
“Nobody can take life away, nobody has permission to do that. I think he was just broken,” Pogorelovsky said.
“I think what happened on Monday [was] he was just trying [to] protect his family.”
At the time of the shooting, Kats and Pogorelovsky were plaintiffs in a lawsuit against the two victims, along with a number of other companies and individuals, after the "loss of $1.28 million to a syndicated mortgage fraud.”
