Multiple News Reports Identify Suspected Ottawa Shooter

Emergency personnel tend to a soldier who was shot at the National War Memorial near Parliament Hill in Ottawa on Wednesday Oct. 22, 2014. The soldier was standing guard at the National War Memorial was shot by an u... Emergency personnel tend to a soldier who was shot at the National War Memorial near Parliament Hill in Ottawa on Wednesday Oct. 22, 2014. The soldier was standing guard at the National War Memorial was shot by an unknown gunman and people reported hearing gunfire inside the halls of Parliament. Prime Minister Stephen Harper was rushed away from Parliament Hill to an undisclosed location, according to officials. (AP Photo/The Canadian Press, Adrian Wyld) MORE LESS
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Multiple media outlets reported on Wednesday that a suspect involved in multiple shootings at and near the Canadian parliament building in Ottawa was named Michael Zehaf-Bibeau.

CBS News was the first to report the name on Wednesday afternoon, citing law enforcement sources and saying he was a Canadian man born in 1982. The news organization later updated its report and said his name was Michael Abdul Zehaf Bibeau.

“One source says he sometime dropped the name Michael and went by Abdul Zehaf Bibeau,” CBS reported. “At other times he apparently dropped the Abdul.”

According to CBS, he sometimes went by Michael and at other times dropped his first name and went by Abdul Zehaf Bibeau.

Fox News also reported on-air that the suspect was Zehaf-Bibeau, and Reuters also used the name in a tweet, citing a “source familiar with the matter.”

Sources told the Globe and Mail that Zehaf-Bibeau was on Canada’s “high-risk traveller” list and his passport had been seized. The Globe and Mail noted that Martin Rouleau-Couture, the man who ran over two Canadian soldiers with his car on Monday had also had his passport seized.

According to Reuters and CNN, Zehaf-Bibeau was a convert to Islam.

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