Suspect in killing of Muslim family in London, Ont., may have accessed neo-Nazi site on dark web: documents
CTV
New court documents revealed to media that the 20-year-old man accused of killing a Muslim family in London, Ont., had what appeared to be 'hate related material' on a device and may have consumed white supremacist content on the dark web.
Nathaniel Veltman was charged with four counts of first-degree murder and one count of attempted murder in the aftermath of a vehicle-ramming attack that killed three generations of a family that was out for a walk on June 6, 2021. Roughly a week after the initial charges were laid, prosecutors also laid terrorism charges against Veltman.
The victims were identified as 46-year-old Salman Afzaal, his wife Madiha, 44, their 15-year-old daughter Yumnah and Salman's 74-year-old mother, Talat. Nine-year-old Fazey Afzaal survived the attack and was hospitalized with serious injuries.
The documents in question were Information to Obtain (ITO) applications, which police file to judges in order to request a search warrant. The ITOs were made public on March 15 after a ruling from a judge, although parts of the documents remain under a publication ban.
Investigators had filed two ITOs in which they sought access to the Dodge Ram pickup truck involved in the attack as well as several of Veltman's electronic devices.
