Suspected Canadian Parliament shooter identified

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last updated 10 January 2015

Canadian federal sources have identified the suspected gunman from Wednesday's shooting at Parliament Hill's Centre Block and National War Memorial as Michael Zehaf-Bibeau.

Zehaf-Bibeau was in his early 30s and known to authorities, The Globe and Mail reports. He was marked as a "high-risk traveler" by the government, and his passport had been seized. A U.S. law enforcement official told CNN his passport was confiscated when authorities learned he planned to fight overseas. CNN also reports he was a convert to Islam, and the CBC says he had a record of drug arrests going back a decade in Quebec.

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Catherine Garcia has worked as a senior writer at The Week since 2014. Her writing and reporting have appeared in Entertainment Weekly, The New York Times, Wirecutter, NBC News and "The Book of Jezebel," among others. She's a graduate of the University of Redlands and the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism.

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