Minassian’s Former Classmates Hope for Answers at Upcoming Toronto Van Attack Trial

An RCMP officer patrols outside the Metro Toronto Convention Centre on June 25, 2010. The Canadian Press/Frank Gunn

TORONTO—Evan Mead still wracks his mind trying to understand what his former classmate was thinking when he drove a van down a Toronto sidewalk mowing down pedestrians.

Mead, 28, spent three years in the same homeroom—Room 208—at Thornlea Secondary School with Alek Minassian, whose murder trial is set to start on Tuesday in a Toronto virtual court.