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A judge is hearing lawyers’ arguments today on whether the actions of a London, Ont., man convicted of running over and killing four members of a Muslim family and injuring another meet the legal definition of an act of terrorism.
After a 10-week trial in Windsor’s Ontario Superior Court, Nathaniel Veltman was convicted in November of four counts of first-degree murder and one count of attempted murder in the truck attack on the Afzaals on June 6, 2021.
Yumnah Afzaal, 15, her parents — Madiha Salman, 44, an engineer, and Salman Afzaal, 46, a physiotherapist — were killed, as was family matriarch Talat Afzaal, 74, a teacher and artist.
