It took just a half-hour between when fire alarms went off at the Bellaria Residences to when a solitary York Regional Police officer confronted and killed 73-year-old gunman Francesco Villi.
He fired four times. Struck him twice in the torso. But only after he noticed the Beretta semi-automatic pistol in the gunman’s hand — and only after giving him several chances, over several seconds, to “drop the gun.”
The report, released Monday by the province’s Special Investigations Unit, said the gunman, who bought the pistol legally in 2019, raised his arm as if readying to point it at the officer before he was shot. That action leaves no doubt the officer did not have any other choice but to use his gun, SIU Director Joseph Martino found.
Villi repeatedly feuded with the board in the years leading up to the massacre, making outlandish claims that his future victims were out to get him and acting aggressively in the building’s public areas. The Monday after the shooting, Villi was set to have yet another court date at which the condo corporation“We need the court’s help in getting Mr. Villi to stop his campaign of abuse and harassment,” Di Nino wrote in an affidavit. So far, “nothing has worked,”, Villi claimed the board members were “murdering” him for “self-interest and money.” The years of available court records offer no evidence to support Villi’s claims.According to the report, his rampage lasted nearly 30 minutes.
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