on global news sat down with the Widow of the gunman behind Monday's murder suicide in Dawn Mills she spoke of the alleged mortgage fraud that she says led her husband to commit such a violent act live now to Global sha O'Shea who has more on this Shan Chala I spent some time with Alan cat's Widow in their Aurora home spoke to their daughter uh they were surrounded by friends supportive friends they just come from the funeral home to arrange a funeral nobody is condoning what cats did did on Monday but they say he'd hit the breaking point because the family was ripped off scammed and lost so much money my husband was um a humble man that to always try to be a best husband sitting in her living room Alisa pogar rosi clutches a picture with her husband Alan cats he was in a push to the age the couple were victims of an Alle mortgage fraud involving Arash masagi identified in court documents as a mortgage fraudster and a mortgage broker named Samir yfi the two were shot to death in their office on Monday in North York Catz then took his own life asked for help and nobody did nothing the couple had gone to police after they alleged they lost their life savings when the pair convinced them to take out a line of credit using their home equity to invest in mortgages she says as a result they lost lost their life savings $1.28 million these people lost their life savings they spent their entire lives saving up they worked hard these people started businesses in a country that they did not know the language of couldn't see hope he doesn't know how to support his family now they're continuing legal action against the Estates of those who arranged the mortgages also against the lawyers who they say were complicit and did not fulfill their legal duties as for money well she doesn't have a whole lot as a result she's selling artwork uh there's a change.org petition there's a GoFundMe that's up to about $116,000 right now and the message is that for so many people who have been scammed especially in mortgage scams her husband felt that he had no choice and that's what happened on Monday back to you our Shan OA reporting for us live tonight thank you Sean