TORONTO — A jury is now into its second day of deliberating the fate of a man accused in a deadly shooting at Toronto's Eaton Centre mall.
The judge instructed the 12 members of the panel on Tuesday that they have three verdicts available to them — guilty, not guilty or not criminally responsible.
Christopher Husbands has admitted to fatally shooting Nixon Nirmalendran and Ahmed Hassan and wounding five others in June 2012, but has pleaded not guilty to multiple charges that include two counts of first-degree murder.
His defence lawyers have argued that Husbands should be found not criminally responsible by reason of a mental disorder.
A psychiatrist called by the defence testified that Husbands suffered from post traumatic stress disorder and acted like a "robotic automaton" after finding himself confronted at the mall by two men who had viciously attacked him months earlier.
The Crown, however, has argued that Husbands gunned down the two men in deliberate retaliation for the previous attack on him.
