‘As victims, we don’t have any rights’: Killer released to Toronto neighbourhood often visited by victim’s family

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One of Parker’s daughters, 30, who works in design-build, had to turn down a project recently on Dowling because she didn’t want to be on the same street as her father’s killer, said her mother. “She cancelled the whole project and said ‘I can’t take this project. I can’t work here because I can’t be on this street every day.’”

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Parker’s other daughter, 31, who moved to New Zealand for years after the killing, has returned to Ontario, but didn’t know Huruy was out of hospital until National Post published a story recently about his case.

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Her mom had to call her in Peterborough to explain the situation.

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“I was shaking,” Parker said.

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“We have protected her and she has tried to not know anything because it was just too traumatizing for her.”

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Huruy was born in Saudi Arabia and immigrated to Canada at age 12 with his mother and sister.

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He’s now living about 1.7 kilometres from CAMH and “travels to programs by walking or public transit,” said his recent ORB decision.

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That takes him past “one of the biggest areas filled with cannabis shops,” Parker said.

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His psychiatrist testified this spring that he saw a “gradual but meaningful expansion in Mr. Huruy’s insight over the past year. While insight is not yet fulsome, Mr. Huruy increasingly links his index offence (of killing Parker) to psychosis and substance use, particularly cannabis.”

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His psychiatrist said Huruy “has not exhibited active psychotic, manic, or residual psychotic symptoms over the past year. Previously noted religiously themed delusions have not emerged,” according to a May 12 decision from the ORB.

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But in its April 2025 report on Huruy, the independent tribunal that regularly reviews the status of individuals found not criminally responsible due to mental disorder, noted that there had been a problem when Huruy was initially confined to the Waypoint Centre for Mental Health Care, in Penetanguishene — Ontario’s most secure forensic facility.

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“In September of 2016, while at Waypoint, Mr. Huruy began to express homicidal ideation related to extremist radical Islamic views,” the ORB said last spring.

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“He stated that he would return to Waypoint after his discharge for the purpose of carrying out an attack on staff and co-patients.”

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A forensic psychiatrist with the Criminal Behaviour Analysis Section of the Ontario Provincial Police, conducted assessments of Huruy in 2017, 2020 and 2022 “in relation to his extremist beliefs,” it said.

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That psychiatrist “concluded that Mr. Huruy posed a high risk of violence in light of these views and his diagnoses of schizophrenia. He suggested that Mr. Huruy meet with an Imam on a regular basis to potentially influence Mr. Huruy regarding the normal, non-radicalized form of Islam.”

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In 2022, Huruy “reported a change in his interpretation of his Islamic faith, after speaking with an aunt in Saudi Arabia, and no longer espoused his extremist homicidal ideations,” said his ORB decision from last year.

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“Mr. Huruy was subsequently transferred to CAMH to be closer to his mother, and he has maintained that he had misinterpreted the Quran and no longer has religious delusional beliefs or extremist homicidal ideations.”

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At this year’s ORB hearing, a lawyer for the province raised the issue about the late Dominic Parker’s friends and family members, who frequent the area where Huruy’s now living.

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“Counsel for the Attorney General accepted that the victims’ concerns are genuine, arising from geographic proximity rather than any concern about Mr. Huruy’s conduct or intent. He characterized the issue as systemic, noting that the proximity concern emerged late in the discharge process and that post placement police notification offered limited reassurance,” the decision said.