Canada's deadliest attack on Muslim Canadians, resulting in the country's first terrorism conviction in a murder trial.
Key Facts
- Date
- June 6, 2021
- Perpetrator
- Nathaniel Veltman, age 20
- Killed
- 4 people
- Wounded
- 1 person
- Sentence
- Five terms of life imprisonment
- Verdict
- 4 counts first-degree murder, 1 attempted murder
By the Numbers
Location
Cause → Event → Consequence
Nathaniel Veltman, a 20-year-old man, targeted a family of Muslim Pakistani Canadian pedestrians in an act later ruled to constitute terrorism under Canadian law, motivated by anti-Muslim hatred.
On June 6, 2021, Veltman deliberately drove a pickup truck into a Muslim Pakistani Canadian family at an intersection in London, Ontario, killing four members and injuring a fifth. It was the deadliest mass killing in the city's history.
Canadian and Pakistani leaders condemned the attack as terrorism. Veltman was convicted in Canada's first murder trial involving terrorism charges and sentenced in February 2024 to five consecutive life terms, establishing a significant legal precedent for terrorism prosecutions in Canada.