The shocking magnitude of the Toronto van attack often consumed the individual heartbreaks from each of Alek Minassian’s victims and their families — their losses and damage in many manifestations.
An emotionally crushing court hearing to learn the impact of his attack on his victims, those who survived one of Canada’s most devastating mass murders and families of those who were killed, rebalanced that, so much so the individual rendering of personal stories through details large and small made the totality of the atrocity so much more unimaginable and excruciating.
“You’ve reached into my heart and touched me in a profound way,” Justice Anne Molloy told a Toronto courtroom filled with victims of the April 23, 2018, attack, before sentencing Minassian on Monday to the maximum allowable sentence for 10 counts of first-degree murder and 16 counts of attempted murder: life without possibility of parole from prison for 25 years.
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