Abdul Aleem Farooqi, the Vaughan husband and father shot dead in a home invasion this week, wanted his four kids to “live the Canadian dream,” according to his brother. Instead, he said the family mourning the 46-year-old’s senseless murder is mired in a “Canadian nightmare.”

“I can see it in all their children’s eyes,” Naeem Farooqi said at a news conference Wednesday, four days after his older brother was killed at his Kleinburg subdivision home .

“They’re shattered.”

York Regional Police earlier confirmed that Farooqi was shot while defending his family from three armed and masked intruders who busted into his home through the back door, but police didn’t say whether the children witnessed the shooting.

Naeem Farooqi confirmed Wednesday that they did and said his brother’s younge

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