UPDATED: The accused in an incel-inspired attack at a Toronto massage parlour two years ago pleaded guilty to charges of murder and attempted murder Wednesday — citing the man responsible for the city's deadly van attack as 'inspiration.'
Terror charges against the accused were added in the months after the February 2020 killing of 24-year-old Ashley Noell Arzaga, a receptionist at the Crown Spa in Toronto's west end.
Incel ideology or involuntary celibacy began as on online misogynistic subculture and is commonly characterized by a hatred or blame against women for an inability to find a romantic or sexual partner. The term gained widespread attention in 2018 when a man who posted about a so-called "incel rebellion" drove a van down a sidewalk in Toronto, killing 10 people and injuring 16 others.
The plea does not cover the associated terror charges against the accused, which were added in the months after the February 2020 killing of 24-year-old Ashley Noell Arzaga and stabbing of another man and woman at the Crown Spa in the city's west end.
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