Canada Parliament gunman made a video before the attack, police say

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Prime Minister Stephen Harper and his wife, Laureen, visit Canada’s Tomb of the Unknown Soldier in Ottawa on Oct. 23, the day after Cpl. Nathan Cirillo was killed by a gunman. (Adrian Wyld / Associated Press)

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Police tape blocks Wellington Street at Sussex near the National War Memorial in Ottawa, where a Canadian soldier was shot and killed. (Mike Carroccetto / Getty Images)

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Police teams enter Centre Block at Parliament Hill in Ottawa. (Justin Tang / Associated Press)

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A Royal Canadian Mounted Police intervention team responds to a reported shooting at Parliament Building in Ottawa. (Adrian Wyld / AP)

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Emergency responders attempt to secure a portion of downtown Ottawa near Parliament Hill after a shooting took place. (CHRIS ROUSSAKIS / EPA)

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An Ottawa police office draws her weapon outside Parliament Hill in Ottawa. (Sean Kilpatrick / Associated Press)

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An Ottawa police officer runs with his weapon drawn outside Parliament Hill in Ottawa (Sean Kilpatrick / Associated Press)

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Paramedics and police pull a victim away from the Canadian War Memorial in Ottawa, Canada. (Adrian Wyld / Associated Press)

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A police officer secures the scene of a shooting on Parliament Hill in Ottawa. A soldier standing guard at the National War Memorial in Ottawa has been shot by an unknown gunman. (Adrian Wyld / AP)

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Quebec Premier Philippe Couillard makes a statement regarding the shooting at the Parliament in Ottawa. (Jacques Boissinot / AP)

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Police cordon off a street leading to Parliament Hill in Ottawa. (Adrian Wyld / AP)

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Police and paramedics transport a wounded Canadian soldier in Ottawa, Canada. (MICHEL COMTE / AFP/Getty Images)

By Lauren Raab

Oct. 26, 2014 8:45 PM PT

Michael Zehaf-Bibeau, who killed a Canadian soldier, stormed Parliament and died in an exchange of gunfire last week, made a video of himself just before the attack, officials said.

There is “persuasive evidence” that the attack in Ottawa “was driven by ideological and political motives,” the Royal Canadian Mounted Police said in a statement Sunday. Police are analyzing the video Zehaf-Bibeau recorded that day and cannot immediately make it public, the statement said.

Before the attack, Zehaf-Bibeau, 32, worked in the Alberta oil fields, police said. He saved his money and “had access to a considerable amount of funds,” the statement said, although it did not specify an amount or what he might have planned to do with the money.

Police said they are still trying to figure out where Zehaf-Bibeau got the “old and uncommon” gun he used, adding that he might have kept it hidden on an aunt’s property. That’s where he appears to have stored the knife he carried, they said in the statement.

According to police, Zehaf-Bibeau fatally shot Cpl. Nathan Cirillo, who was standing guard at a war memorial near Parliament, on Wednesday morning. Then he got into a car he’d bought the day before, drove to Parliament Hill, parked, ran a short distance, seized another car, drove to the main Parliament building and ran through the main doors, they said.

Inside the building, Zehaf-Bibeau was involved in an exchange of gunfire with House of Commons security and police, they said. He was pronounced dead at the scene.

Police said Thursday that Zehaf-Bibeau was born in Montreal, had lived in Calgary and Vancouver and may also have held Libyan citizenship. He had been in Ottawa since at least Oct. 2, hoping to get a passport to travel to Syria, they said.

Times staff writers W.J. Hennigan and Alexandra Zavis contributed to this report.

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