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The gunman who killed a military guard and terrorized the Canadian Parliament in a shooting spree had been living in a nearby homeless shelter for 10 days and was missing, along with two other men, on the morning of the attack, shelter residents said on Thursday.
In interviews, they said the shooter, Michael Zehaf-Bibeau, killed in a fusillade of bullets on Wednesday in the House of Commons, had also sought to purchase a cheap car while he was staying at the shelter in Ottawa.
Mr. Zehaf-Bibeau and the other two men, whom the residents described as Muslims who frequently prayed in the shelter’s hallways, were not present early Wednesday when a false fire alarm was tripped at 8 a.m., a few hours before the shootings began.
The residents did not corroborate an account published on Thursday by the Ottawa Citizen newspaper that Mr. Zehaf-Bibeau and the other two had been friends who had jointly sought to buy a car.
Read more http://www.nytimes.com/2014/10/24/world/americas/ottawa-canada-parliament-attack.html?_r=0
In interviews, they said the shooter, Michael Zehaf-Bibeau, killed in a fusillade of bullets on Wednesday in the House of Commons, had also sought to purchase a cheap car while he was staying at the shelter in Ottawa.
Mr. Zehaf-Bibeau and the other two men, whom the residents described as Muslims who frequently prayed in the shelter’s hallways, were not present early Wednesday when a false fire alarm was tripped at 8 a.m., a few hours before the shootings began.
The residents did not corroborate an account published on Thursday by the Ottawa Citizen newspaper that Mr. Zehaf-Bibeau and the other two had been friends who had jointly sought to buy a car.
Read more http://www.nytimes.com/2014/10/24/world/americas/ottawa-canada-parliament-attack.html?_r=0
