Police have identified the man that shot and killed five people in a Canadian condo as a resident involved in a legal dispute with the building’s board.
Francesco Villi, 73, went door-to-door to carry out a planned attack against other residents of Bellaria Residences building on Sunday night in the Toronto area city of Vaughan, Ontario.
According to Ontario’s Special Investigations Unit (SIU), Villi used a semi-automatic handgun to shoot and kill three men and two women. Three of his targets were members of his building’s condo board.
A spokesperson for the SIU confirmed the victims were located across ‘several floors’ in the building. When police arrived, they confronted Villi on the building’s third floor.
He also injured a third woman who was rushed to a local hospital.
Villi was shot and killed by York Regional Police officers who responded to the mass shooting around 7.20pm.
York Regional Police Chief James MacSween confirmed that officers responded to the attack in under three minutes.
‘When police arrived, an interaction occurred between the officers and a male subject and the subject was shot,’ the police stated. He was pronounced dead at the scene.
Investigators have not released a motive for the attack yet, but Villi has been involved in a longstanding legal dispute with members of his building’s condo board.
In 2020, Villi filed a lawsuit against six directors of the condo board, alleging they committed crimes beginning in 2010. A local judge dismissed his suit earlier this summer, calling it ‘frivolous’ and ‘vexatious.’
Additional documents obtained by Toronto City News show that Villi filed numerous complaints against the board for noise, odors, heat, and ‘electromagnetic waves’ coming from the building’s electrical room directly below his apartment.
Villi hired lawyers, hired commercial and city inspectors, and thoroughly documented his complaints on social media, but it appears none of his complaints were acted upon.
He later claimed the board ‘left him to die’ during the pandemic, when COVID-19 restrictions forced him to remain in his apartment for long periods of time.
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