Toronto office shooting: Alleged mortgage fraud pushed husband ‘to the edge,’ wife says

The gunman in a Toronto office shooting that left two people dead was “pushed to the edge,” his widow says, after the couple allegedly fell victim to a scam and lost their life savings.

Speaking to Global News on Thursday, Alisa Pogorelovsky said her husband Alan Katz was a “humble man” who loved his family.

They were married for more than nine years and have two children, aged 17 and six.

Pogorelovsky said their lives were “amazing” and “happy,” but once they fell victim to an alleged scam, “everything changed.”

“He couldn’t work. He couldn’t do anything. He couldn’t concentrate. He stopped sleeping, he stopped eating,” she said of her husband.

“He stopped being himself. He just couldn’t take it that people can come and take your money and just leave you behind without any fears and still go to work in the same office where it’s happened and just continue doing what they continue doing.”

Arash Missaghi and Samira Yousefi were shot dead on Monday in an office building off Mallard Road in North York, near Don Mills and York Mills roads.

Katz, 46, also died at the scene.

Speaking at the scene Monday, Det.-Sgt. Al Bartlett said before the shooting took place, an altercation “in relation” to the business unfolded.

Earlier this week, Pogorelovsky said in a statement that her husband “could not handle losing our life’s savings” in an alleged mortgage fraud Missaghi and Yousefi were being accused of.

“The events that gave rise to the litigation that we are involved in with Missaghi and Yousefi have devastated and now destroyed our family. Alan could not handle losing our life’s savings and that is what lead to this tragic event,” Pogorelovsky said in the statement.

“He wrote a note before he died that I found today which explains what he