Michael Zehaf-Bibeau has been widely identified as the gunman who killed a soldier in Ottawa before terrorising the Canadian Parliament.<br /><br />US media say he was a recent convert to Islam, while Canadian papers report he had had his passport confiscated and was convicted of a string of petty crimes. Though his motive is not clear, the chronology of events is being confirmed.<br /><br />The first shots were fired at 9.52 am local time at the National War Memorial where a soldier was fatally wounded. Minutes later the suspect was said to have fled to the parliament in a car with missing license plates. <br /><br />He entered the centre block of the building near to where the Prime Minister was holding a party meeting. <br /><br />Shots were reported at 10.45 am.<br /><br />MPs were barricaded in their parliamentary rooms, as a tactical team converged on the suspect.<br /><br />Central Ottawa was placed on lockdown as police secured the area of any further threat. <br /><br />The parliament’s Sergeant-at-Arms, Kevin Vickers, was identified as the man who shot dead the gunman, and has been largely hailed as a hero.<br /><br />By 8.25pm the lockdown on downtown Ottawa was lifted.
