1 shooter dead, 1 still believed at large in downtown Ottawa.
Police searching cars leaving Ottawa trying to go to Quebec.
Report of additional shot fired near Chateau Laurier hotel, east of Parliament Hill.
Police going door to door in downtown core; downtown schools in lockdown.
All three main party leaders, Harper, Mulcair and Trudeau, reported safe.

Parliament Hill came under attack today after a man with a rifle shot a soldier standing guard at the National War Memorial in downtown Ottawa, before seizing a car and driving to the doors of Parliament Hill's Centre Block nearby.

MPs and other witnesses reported several shots fired inside Parliament, and a gunman has been confirmed dead inside the building. The soldier's condition is not known as this time.

Ottawa police have confirmed shots were fired at three locations: the war memorial, inside Centre Block and at the Rideau Centre shopping mall east of Parliament Hill. The downtown area remains in police lockdown.

http://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/parliament-hill-attack-1-gunman-dead-after-soldier-shot-at-national-war-memorial-1.2808710

Quote from: Solar on October 22, 2014, 09:10:13 AM
1 shooter dead, 1 still believed at large in downtown Ottawa.
Police searching cars leaving Ottawa trying to go to Quebec.
Report of additional shot fired near Chateau Laurier hotel, east of Parliament Hill.
Police going door to door in downtown core; downtown schools in lockdown.
All three main party leaders, Harper, Mulcair and Trudeau, reported safe.

Parliament Hill came under attack today after a man with a rifle shot a soldier standing guard at the National War Memorial in downtown Ottawa, before seizing a car and driving to the doors of Parliament Hill's Centre Block nearby.

MPs and other witnesses reported several shots fired inside Parliament, and a gunman has been confirmed dead inside the building. The soldier's condition is not known as this time.

Ottawa police have confirmed shots were fired at three locations: the war memorial, inside Centre Block and at the Rideau Centre shopping mall east of Parliament Hill. The downtown area remains in police lockdown.

http://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/parliament-hill-attack-1-gunman-dead-after-soldier-shot-at-national-war-memorial-1.2808710

Yawn. Probably just some more of that "workplace violence". 

Another crazed Tea Partier??

Quote from: taxed on October 22, 2014, 09:33:23 AM
Another crazed Tea Partier??

Give them a day, I'm sure they'll look for some kind of link and claim extremist Conservative.

Quote from: Solar on October 22, 2014, 12:33:42 PM
Give them a day, I'm sure they'll look for some kind of link and claim extremist Conservative.

Or manage to link it to 'Global Warming'. 

Quote from: MACMan on October 22, 2014, 09:15:28 AM
Yawn. Probably just some more of that "workplace violence". 

Nothing to see here - move on.

DaisyJane   

Quote from: DaisyJane on October 22, 2014, 01:08:51 PM

Nothing to see here - move on.

DaisyJane   

It must be Dem's then.   

It's good SOMEONE had a gun.

Isn't Canada one of those places always against guns?

DaisyJane     

Quote from: DaisyJane on October 22, 2014, 01:08:51 PM

Nothing to see here - move on.

DaisyJane   

Wait and see the backgrounds of the perpetrators. If it was done by Islamic extremist it has ramifications in the US.

Quote from: supsalemgr on October 22, 2014, 01:36:56 PM
Wait and see the backgrounds of the perpetrators. If it was done by Islamic extremist it has ramifications in the US.

What ramifications? Certainly not anything to do with Islam.

Quote from: MACMan on October 22, 2014, 01:59:15 PM
What ramifications? Certainly not anything to do with Islam.

Your sarcasm is noted. 

Still unfolding, I guess.  Odd that Harper hasn't said anything yet.  Shooting a ceremonial guard standing vigil at a war-memorial is like shooting every Canadian. 

Quote from: supsalemgr on October 22, 2014, 01:36:56 PM
Wait and see the backgrounds of the perpetrators. If it was done by Islamic extremist it has ramifications in the US.

"IF"?

They just had another incident yesterday by a new Muslim convert. There was also a shooting at a nearby mall that I only heard mention once.

Quote from: kit saginaw on October 22, 2014, 02:50:58 PM
Still unfolding, I guess.  Odd that Harper hasn't said anything yet.  Shooting a ceremonial guard standing vigil at a war-memorial is like shooting every Canadian.

The poor guard was likely unarmed, to boot, i.e., no live rounds in his weapon.

Here you have it -- A recent convert to ISLAM.

A Muslim convert shot dead a Canadian soldier at the National War Memorial in Ottawa today before exchanging dozens of shots with guards inside Parliament in a terrifying attack that left the nation's capital on lockdown.

Michael Zehaf-Bibeau fatally shot Corporal Nathan Cirillo, a 24-year-old father, as he stood guard at the War Memorial on Wednesday morning.

Zehaf-Bibeau then ran inside the Parliament, where he opened fire before he was shot dead by the House of Commons Sergeant-at-Arms.

Zehaf-Bibeau, who had a criminal history for drug trafficking in Montreal and robbery in Vancouver, was born in Quebec as Michael Joseph Hall but recently converted to Islam, CBS reported.

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