Flowers, notes and candles are piled high at a vigil on Yonge Street in Toronto on April 24, 2018.Galit Rodan/The Canadian Press
An event commemorating the fourth anniversary of Toronto’s deadly van attack will be held virtually due to COVID-19.
The Yonge Street Tragedy Commemoration Committee says there will be a broadcast at 1:15 p.m. on April 23.
On that date in 2018, a 25-year-old man bent on infamy, angered by women who wouldn’t sleep with him and radicalized in the bowels of the internet deliberately drove a rented van down a busy sidewalk.
Alek Minassian killed 10 people that day, and another woman died more than three years later, never leaving the hospital.
He hurt 15 others, many of them catastrophically.
Mr. Minassian was found guilty of 10 counts of first-degree murder and 16 counts of attempted murder and is scheduled to be sentenced on June 13.
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