The suspect in the killing of a Canadian soldier at an Ottawa war memorial had a criminal record for violent and drug-related offences and wanted to travel to Syria, police say.
Michael Zehaf-Bibeau has been identified as the lone gunman in Wednesday's terror attack at the National War Memorial and inside Canada's parliament building.
Police say the 32-year-old Muslim convert was seeking to travel to Syria and had a passport application delayed over concerns about extremism.
CCTV footage of the moments leading up to the attack shows people fleeing the suspect as he ran into the parliament complex.
After entering the building, the suspect opened fire before being shot dead by Sergeant-at-Arms Kevin Vickers, who has been hailed as a hero.
Moments earlier Zehaf-Bibeau shot and killed 24-year-old Canadian soldier Nathan Cirillo at the National War Memorial.
Royal Canadian Mounted Police (RCMP) Commissioner Bob Paulson said Zehaf-Bibeau had a "very developed criminality".
"He is an interesting individual in the sense he had a very developed criminality," he said.
Commissioner Paulson added that the suspect also had a history of "violence and of drugs and of mental instability".
He said the delay over Zehaf-Bibeau's passport application may have contributed to his motive for carrying out the attack.
"I think the passport figured prominently in his motives and his - you know I'm not inside his head - but I think it was central to what was driving him."
An email from Zehaf-Bibeau was found on the hard drive of someone who has been charged with a terrorism-related offence in Canada, the RCMP said.
Authorities say the suspect acted alone and police have not linked his attack with the killing of another soldier in Quebec on Monday.
The suspect's mother Susan Bibeau said she is crying for the victims of the shooting, not for her son.
"We have no explanation to offer. I am mad at our son, I don't understand and part of me wants to hate him at this time."
She added that her son was a social misfit who was "lost".
"(He) was lost and did not fit in," the woman said in a statement given to Associated Press.
"I, his mother, spoke with him last week over lunch, I had not seen him for over five years before that."
Zehaf-Bibeau was not among 93 high-risk travellers being monitored by authorities, but was seeking a passport.
Police were asked to carry out background checks when Zehaf-Bibeau applied for the passport, but he had not been placed under surveillance.
A former friend who once lived with Zehaf-Bibeau at a Vancouver homeless shelter said the suspect had once tried unsuccessfully to get off drugs.
"We referred to him as Muslim Mike. He didn't seem like a bad guy," Steve Sikich told the Reuters news agency.
Mr Sikich said he last saw Zehaf-Bibeau "a month or two ago", adding that the suspect was rambling about wanting to travel to Libya and join Islamic State.
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