From reverent silence to total chaos: how attack on Canadian parliament unfolded
Mother of gunman who killed soldier at war memorial before storming Parliament building denounces his actions, describing him as ‘lost’
The mother of the man accused of killing a soldier at Ottawa's war memorial then storming Parliament before being shot dead spoke to the media for the first time last night and revealed that she is crying for the victims of the shooting - not her son.
In a brief and tear-filled telephone interview, Susan Bibeau said she did not know what to say to those hurt in the attack.
"Can you ever explain something like this?" she said. "We are sorry."
Investigators offered little information about the gunman in Ottawa, identified as 32-year-old petty criminal Michael Zehaf-Bibeau.
Canadian police conceded that Zehaf-Bibeau was the lone gunman, the second attack in three days in what the prime minister described as terrorism.
