In the moments after Danforth Avenue shooter Faisal Hussain put a bullet in his head, the word “Home” flashed on the screen of his ringing cellphone.Toronto police officers on scene answered it, and spoke to his parents, who were unaware their son had just opened fire on a busy stretch of Danforth Ave. around 10 p.m. on July 22, killing 18-year-old Reese Fallon and 10-year-old Julianna Kozis and leaving 13 others injured.Police included the cellphone detail in a just-released “information to obtain” (ITO) document, used to obtain a warrant to search that home, at 43 Thorncliffe Park Dr., where the 29-year-old lived with his parents.On Thursday, the Ministry of the Attorney General complied with Ontario Superior Court Judge David Corbett’s ruling ordering the partial release of three ITOs connected to the case: two searches of the Hussain family apartment and of a police locker, containing property, most of it electronics, including cellphones and computers, which was then seized.Corbett’s ruling comes after separate applications by the Star and other media to unseal the documents. Investigators obtained sealing orders, prohibiting the disclosure of the warrants and their grounds, on the basis that it could “compromise the nature and extent of an ongoing investigation,” according to court documents.Minutes after his rampage, Hussain exchanged gunfire with two Toronto police officers near an alleyway on Bowden St., and fled toward the Danforth, where he was found dead of a self-inflicted gunshot to the head. Ontario’s police watchdog, the Special Investigations Unit (SIU), is probing Hussain’s death. SIU spokesperson Monica Hudon said Wednesday that investigators “are in the final stages of processing evidence.”Toronto Police Emergency Task Force officers, accompanied by an explosives dog, did not wait for a warrant to search the apartment that night, and entered it under “exigent circum ...
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