The families of two men killed in a 2012 shooting inside Eaton Centre are suing the suspect, police boards and the mall owners for a total of $9.5 million.

In three separate multi-million dollar lawsuits, the victims’ families say the suspect was supposed to be under house arrest a condition of bail at the time of the shooting, and are seeking to hold responsible those parties in charge of ensuring compliance with the bail conditions.

Ahmed Hassan, 24, and Nixon Nirmalendran, 22, died after gunshots rang out in the mall’s busy food court on Saturday, June 2, 2012 just before 6:30 p.m. Eight other people were also injured in the shooting.

In one of the lawsuits, Hassan’s father and two sisters are suing for $750,000 each, as are Nirmalendran’s mother, father and brother in a second lawsuit. In the third, Nirmalendran’s common-law spouse and his son - born six months after the shooting - are each suing for $2.5 million.

The lawsuits claim that the suspect, Christopher Husbands, had a history of breaching bail conditions, and that his sureties, the Hamilton and Toronto police boards and the province were negligent in enforcing his bail conditions and implementing electronic monitoring of Husbands.

None of the allegations in the lawsuits have been proven in court and the names of Husbands’ sureties are under a court-ordered publication ban.

In March 2010, Husbands was charged with breaching bail, obstructing a police officer and marijuana possession, according to the lawsuits. In May of that year, he was released on bail into the hands of two sureties. In November 2010, he was charged with sexual assault in Toronto and released on bail the following month.

Bogoroch & Associates, the law firm representing the families of Hassan and Nirmalendran, allege that the province and police “failed to take into account the Hamilton charges when granting Christopher Husbands’ bail conditions in relation to the 2010 Toronto charges.”

At the time of the shooting, Husbands’ bail conditions were that he was to be under house arrest except to attend school and he was not permitted to possess firearms.

The lawsuits also seek to hold either the mall’s owners or its security services responsible for the shooting, alleging that they did not have properly trained staff to prevent and control violent incidents.

Both Toronto and Hamilton police services boards and Cadillac Fairview, one of three mall owners named in the lawsuits, have filed “notices of intent to defend,” according to a report in the Toronto Star.

Husbands is awaiting trial for two counts of first-degree murder and five counts of aggravated assault.