A limited online profile linked to alleged gunman Richard Edwin and confirmed independently by the Star reveals a interest in firearms and self-defence training, but few insights on motive.
Days after a 39-year-old man was arrested for the shocking and apparently random, unprovoked murders of two men in downtown Toronto and the discovery of an “arsenal” of legally owned firearms in his home, an online profile is revealing new information about Richard Edwin, but no clues on why the shootings happened.
Earlier this week police said they were working to uncover more information about the man, who appears to have family ties in Ottawa and does not have a criminal record. The profile follows pages or groups linked to self-defence, including an Atlanta-based group focused on firearms, self-defence and survival; the “Toronto Tactical Action Close Combat College” which described itself as providing firearms-focused martial arts training with airsoft guns; and a page dedicated to armed and unarmed self-defence. The extent of the Facebook profile’s interaction with these pages is unclear.
It is unclear if Edwin was a member of a gun club, or if he used any of the firearms for target shooting — and the Facebook page does not shed light on this.The same person appears to have also authored a 2017 pamphlet under the same name as the Facebook profile. That pamphlet expands on some of the topics discussed in the profile, promotes eating vegan food and references conspiracy theories about diseases and vaccines being used to harm Black people.
In both shootings, witnesses have told police there was no verbal communication “whatsoever,” Browne said.
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