MONTREALOn the first day of summer, 1995, Susan Bibeau and her husband, Bulgasem Zehaf, walked into a Laval, Que., courthouse determined to right a wrong in the name of their 12-year-old son.
Joseph Paul Michael Bibeau came into the world in October 1982 but the couple, who had met less than a year before, split up before the birth. Bibeau, a bureaucrat, had withheld Zehafs name from their sons birth certificate, according to a legal application to change his name. A short while later, they resolved their differences, then married.
On that day in 1995, the couple decided to give back to their young boy one half of his heritage.The boys decidedly Christian name was legally changed to Joseph Paul Michael Abdallah Bulgasem Zehaf-Bibeau
resurfaced on police radar was in 2011 in Vancouvers skid row....., The address Zehaf-Bibeau gives is a world away from the suburban comfort in which he was raised: a Salvation Army emergency shelter, a magnet for transients, drug and alcohol abusers and the homeless.
rather possible mental illness,....... Last seen in a Burnaby, B.C., mosque in September, Zehaf-Bibeau spoke of wanting to travel to the Middle East for language and religious studies, Bathurst told The Globe and Mail.
Zehaf-Bibeau had substance abuse problems, moved around a lot ...By the summer of 2013, Zehaf-Bibeau had moved again.
Back then, Montreal resident Bari Malki peaked out of his suburban home across the road from the one that he says Zehaf-Bibeaus parents, although legally divorced in 1999, still share.
Parked on the street was a dark-coloured Hummer. Scurrying around the luxury vehicle was a man with long dark hair, a white skullcap and wearing what he described as a typical Arab wardrobe.
Malki learned the mans identity only when he turned on the news Wednesday and saw the photograph of a gun-toting Zehaf-Bibeau. He recalled the booming voice of the shooters father, Bulgasem Zehaf, urging his son to stop cleaning the vehicle because it wasnt even dirty.
s investigating after a driving violation this summer was issued to the owner of the car Zehaf-Bibeau used to storm Parliament Hill. The beige Toyota was registered to a local Islamic centre. The ticket was issued long before Wednesdays shooting.
Ottawa on Oct. 2, it appears Zehaf-Bibeau had fallen on hard times once again
, he checked into another shelter, this time on Waller Avenue, a short walk from Parliament Hill.
Residents said he had been staying there for about two weeks prior to Wednesdays shooting.
His behaviour at the shelter was bizarre. He often bragged about having used crack cocaine and heroin, but was overtly religious.
Hed be kneeling on a towel in the stairway and youd have to step around him, said one man who would identify himself only as Dave.Theres a lot of people around here with issues that seem creepy sometimes
he was not placed on the list of the 93 so-called high-risk travellers that the RCMP and CSIS have under investigation.
His difficulty obtaining that travel document was likely central to his motives
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