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Alek Minassian was found guilty of 10 counts of first-degree murder and 16 counts of attempted murder in the 2018 Toronto van attack and sentenced to life in prison with no eligibility for parole for 25 years. Minassian was 25 and living in Richmond Hill, Ontario, north of Toronto, at the time. He had been diagnosed with autism spectrum disorder and had no connection to the people he struck.

On April 23, 2018, Minassian drove a rented van onto the sidewalk along Yonge Street in Toronto's North York area, killing 10 people and injuring 16. One of the injured, a woman not named in the reporting, died of her injuries in 2021, bringing the death toll to 11. Minassian had rented the van almost three weeks earlier and chose one small enough to steer on a sidewalk but large enough to cause heavy damage. Toronto police Constable Ken Lam arrested him a short distance from the end of the route without firing a shot.

Hours after the arrest, Detective Rob Thomas interrogated Minassian at Toronto Police Service 32 Division. Minassian said he had set out to kill people that day and had rented the van almost three weeks in advance. He said he had been rejected by women and frequented incel forums. He referred to mass killers Elliot Rodger and Chris Harper-Mercer, claiming he had been in contact with them before their deaths. Asked about the people he had hit, he said, "I feel like I accomplished my mission."

The recording became public in September 2019 after Justice Anne Molloy of the Ontario Superior Court ordered its release in response to a request by news organizations. At trial, Molloy treated much of Minassian's police account with caution. She found that the incel movement was not a primary driving force and wrote that it is almost impossible to tell when he is lying and when he is telling the truth.

Minassian did not dispute that he planned and carried out the attack. Tried by judge alone before Molloy in the Ontario Superior Court of Justice, he argued that autism spectrum disorder left him unable to develop empathy or make a rational moral choice and that he should be found not criminally responsible on account of mental disorder. On March 3, 2021, Molloy rejected the defence and found him guilty on all 26 counts in a 69-page decision read on a livestream. She wrote that the attack was the act of a reasoning mind, that he knew the vast majority of people would consider mass murder morally wrong, and that he chose to do it anyway.

On June 13, 2022, Molloy sentenced Minassian to life in prison with no eligibility for parole for 25 years, plus 20 years concurrent on 15 counts of attempted murder. She noted that the Supreme Court of Canada had recently struck down as unconstitutional the 2011 provision allowing consecutive 25-year parole ineligibility periods for multiple murders, capping his ineligibility at 25 years. Addressing the victim who died in 2021, she said, "In reality, this is a murder. You killed this woman the same way you killed the other 10 people and I am imposing a life sentence."

Minassian filed a notice of appeal in July 2022, arguing that Molloy misapprehended expert evidence and made unreasonable findings of fact in declining to find him not criminally responsible. He sought a finding of not criminally responsible, a new trial, or both. The appeal has not been decided. On March 4, 2026, in R. v. Minassian, 2026 ONCA 150, the Court of Appeal for Ontario dismissed his motion seeking production of Crown materials relating to the Crown's forensic psychiatrist, holding that the documents were covered by solicitor-client privilege and were not relevant to a fresh evidence motion.

The video is the police interview-room recording, posted in two parts and running about 173 minutes. It contains the interview itself, without narration or a presenter. The interview lasted close to four hours, but the published version removes stretches when the room was empty and marks the cuts with a static effect.

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Part 2 of 2 of the recording described above.