Just over two years after a fatal attack on a Muslim family in London, the trial of the man facing murder and terror charges begins this morning with jury selection in another southwestern Ontario location, Windsor.
The Afzaals were out for an evening walk in suburban London on June 6, 2021, when they were struck by a vehicle. Yumnah Afzaal, 15, her parents Madiha Salman, 44, and Salman Afzaal, 46, and family matriarch Talat Afzaal, 74, were killed. A nine-year-old boy survived.
Nathaniel Veltman, 22, was arrested in the hours following the attack. He’s charged with four counts of first-degree murder, one count of attempted murder and terrorism