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Crazed man attacks nine people with hammer in Vancouver after Gay Pride Parade

“We’re not sure what the motivation was. It’s so random and so violent and so bizarre…. He was ranting about a lot of things and what exactly he was saying I have yet to confirm with investigators.”

Constable Jana McGuinness explaining what she knows about the nine attacks by hammer-wielding man, Khalid Alzghoul, along the gay-favorite Davie Street in Vancouver, Canada, just after the city’s Gay Pride Parade. (Vancouver Sun)

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