Shooter attacked strip of restaurants before exchanging gunfire with police

Faisal Hussain has been identified as the gunman in the deadly Danforth Avenue shooting rampage.

Ontario's Special Investigations Unit (SIU) released Hussain's identity on Monday evening, hours after he opened fire on a number of Danforth Avenue restaurants, killing two people and injuring 13 more. 

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Hussain, 29, then died of a gunshot wound after exchanging fire with Toronto police.