Canada IDs suspect, was 'high-risk traveler': reports

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AFP Ottawa
Last Updated : Oct 23 2014 | 6:20 AM IST
The gunman suspected of carrying out deadly shooting in Canada has been identified as Michael Zehaf-Bibeau, a 32-year-old deemed a "high-risk traveler" by intelligence services, media reports said.
US television network CBS first revealed the identity of the suspect, citing US officials.
The assailant was shot dead by police in Ottawa after he apparently opened fire on a soldier, named as Corporal Nathan Cirillo, at Canada's national war memorial and then attacked parliament yesterday.
Canadian officials then confirmed Zehaf-Bibeau's identity to local media, saying he had recently had his passport confiscated.
A Canadian man who struck two soldiers with his car in a Montreal suburb on Monday -- one of them fatally -- had had his passport taken away in July, investigators have said.
Canadian network CTV reported that Zehaf-Bibeau was sentenced to two years in prison for robbery and weapons possession in 2003. He was also investigated for possible drugs possession.
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First Published: Oct 23 2014 | 6:20 AM IST

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