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Gunman in Toronto office shooting blamed victims for "losing our life’s savings"

Gunman in Toronto office shooting blamed victims for "losing our life’s savings"
  • PublishedJune 20, 2024

A gunman who allegedly killed two people in a Toronto office building earlier this week blamed them for “losing our life’s savings,” his spouse says. Arash Missaghi and Samira Yousefi were shot dead on Monday in an office building off Mallard Road in North York, near Don Mills and York Mills roads. The shooter, a 46-year-old man, also died at the scene, Toronto police said. Officials have not released his identity, but his wife — Alisa Pogorelovsky — said her husband, Alan Katz, “could not handle losing our life’s savings” in an alleged mortgage fraud Missaghi and Yousefi were being accused of. “The events that gave rise to the litigation that we are involved in with Missaghi and Yousefi have devastated and now destroyed our family. Alan could not handle losing our life’s savings and that is what lead to this tragic event,” Pogorelovsky said in a statement to Global News

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