In brief: Suspect surrenders in mall shooting
TORONTO – A personal issue apparently sparked the Toronto mall food court shooting that left one person dead and seven others injured, police said Monday.
Police said a man under house arrest for a previous charge turned himself in to police early Monday and was charged with first-degree murder related to the Eaton Centre shooting on Saturday evening.
The dead man, along with an associate who remained in critical condition with gunshot wounds, belonged to the same gang as the suspect, police said.
Christopher Husbands, 23, appeared briefly in court Monday afternoon as his lawyer tried to cover his face with a notebook.
Gender-preference ID law takes effect
BUENOS AIRES, Argentina – Transsexuals lined up Monday to be the first to take advantage of Argentina’s groundbreaking gender-identity law, which enables people to change their names and sexes on official documents without first getting approval from a judge or doctor.
No other country in the world allows people to change their official identities based merely on how they feel.
Many other countries, including the United States, require people to pass barriers that sexual identity experts describe as painful or humiliating, such as hormone therapy or surgeries to physically change their sex organs and psychiatric visits to demonstrate they have “gender identity disorder” or other abnormalities.