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An Ottawa man trying to sell his used car online spent several hours with Michael Zehaf-Bibeau, visiting two Ontario government service offices, on the day before the gunman used the vehicle to drive to the War Memorial and kill a soldier.
The car owner’s daughter had posted the ad online on Monday night, asking $700 for the rusting grey 1995 Toyota Corolla. Her father’s English is very poor so she took the calls. She received several inquiries, including one from someone with a 613-area code phone number who identified himself as “Michael.”
The young woman, a University of Ottawa student who asked not be named, said Michael spoke unaccented English and told her he wanted to come see the vehicle, she said, but he didn’t have any way to get to their home in the Carlington area.
“He said he really needed the car because he has problems getting around town and this was a good deal and he was interested in buying the car,” she said.
Zehaf-Bibeau said he could come by city bus from Metcalfe Street and arrive at 9 a.m. the next morning.
But shortly before 7 a.m. on Tuesday, she said, her father heard someone banging on the front door. The woman was sleeping as her father answered the door to a bearded man, with long hair. He said he was there to buy the car, she said. Her father asked him to wait a moment the went back into the house get dressed.
Together, they test drove the car. Zehaf-Bibeau agreed to buy it but offered $650 because the mileage was high.
They drove in the Toyota to the ServiceOntario office at the Westgate Mall on Carling Ave. to transfer the ownership. The office hadn’t opened so they waited in line in the mall. An argument with a man in line ensued.
“He was talking very loudly, causing commotion,” she said her father told her. “He was speaking very loudly, obnoxiously.”
When the office opened an hour later, Zehaf-Bibeau continued to cause problems.
“The lady who works at the bureau told him, ‘Sir, this is an office. Please keep it down or take it outside.'”
MTO staff would not agree to process the sale of the vehicle because Zehaf-Bibeau had only an out-of-province drivers license.
“The lady said we can’t do this. We need two pieces of ID.”
Zehaf-Bibeau asked if there was another office nearby and was referred by the clerk to the Ministry of Transportation offices on Walkley Road.
The two men drove across town to the Walkley location, off Bank Street south. Because of her father’s language problems, they didn’t speak much.
At the Walkley office, the clerk there also refused to process the transaction.
Zehaf-Bibeau asked if he could have another piece of ID faxed. The clerk gave him a fax number.
To arrange the fax, Zehaf-Bibeau tried to make a call on his cellphone but the call didn’t go through. He left briefly to buy a calling card and returned to use the payphone inside the MTO office.
“While he was using the payphone, he was screaming again. He was just swearing, constantly saying, ‘Fuck, fuck, fuck,'” the woman said. “He was always fidgeting. He was just a weird guy.”
The MTO clerk said it would take an hour and a half to process the sale. The seller didn’t want to wait around that long so the clerk suggested he simply sign over the ownership card and remove the license plates, his daughter said.
Then, the woman said, Zehaf-Bibeau asked her father to just let him use the car for one day.
“He was like, can I please just use the car for one day? Like, I really need to do something. Just leave the plates on because if you take them off I can’t really use the car. By tomorrow, I’ll bring the plates back,” she said Zehaf-Bibeau pleaded.
Her father would not agree but Zehaf-Bibeau bought the car, anyway, paying $650 in cash. Her father signed over the ownership, removed his plates and left the car with Zehaf-Bibeau.
The woman was driving her mother to a medical appointment the next day when she heard the news of the shooting on the radio. She pulled up the story on her phone and saw a reference to a Toyota Corolla with no license plate, found between Parliament Hill and the National War Memorial.
Later, when she saw the man’s name and the photo of the vehicle, she realized it was her father’s old car.
On Wednesday, four RCMP officers came to their home and interviewed them both about their encounter with Zehaf-Bibeau. She gave the police the number from her cellphone.
“It was really scary to think this man was some psycho killer,” the woman said. “My father was in the same car with him and in the bureau. It’s so scary.”
Note: A previous version of this story referred to a Ministry of Transportation office at the Westgate Mall. In fact, the office is now a ServiceOntario location but does process motor-vehicle transactions.
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The car owner’s daughter had posted the ad online on Monday night, asking $700 for the rusting grey 1995 Toyota Corolla. Her father’s English is very poor so she took the calls. She received several inquiries, including one from someone with a 613-area code phone number who identified himself as “Michael.”
The young woman, a University of Ottawa student who asked not be named, said Michael spoke unaccented English and told her he wanted to come see the vehicle, she said, but he didn’t have any way to get to their home in the Carlington area.
“He said he really needed the car because he has problems getting around town and this was a good deal and he was interested in buying the car,” she said.
Zehaf-Bibeau said he could come by city bus from Metcalfe Street and arrive at 9 a.m. the next morning.
But shortly before 7 a.m. on Tuesday, she said, her father heard someone banging on the front door. The woman was sleeping as her father answered the door to a bearded man, with long hair. He said he was there to buy the car, she said. Her father asked him to wait a moment the went back into the house get dressed.
Together, they test drove the car. Zehaf-Bibeau agreed to buy it but offered $650 because the mileage was high.
They drove in the Toyota to the ServiceOntario office at the Westgate Mall on Carling Ave. to transfer the ownership. The office hadn’t opened so they waited in line in the mall. An argument with a man in line ensued.
“He was talking very loudly, causing commotion,” she said her father told her. “He was speaking very loudly, obnoxiously.”
When the office opened an hour later, Zehaf-Bibeau continued to cause problems.
“The lady who works at the bureau told him, ‘Sir, this is an office. Please keep it down or take it outside.'”
MTO staff would not agree to process the sale of the vehicle because Zehaf-Bibeau had only an out-of-province drivers license.
“The lady said we can’t do this. We need two pieces of ID.”
Zehaf-Bibeau asked if there was another office nearby and was referred by the clerk to the Ministry of Transportation offices on Walkley Road.
The two men drove across town to the Walkley location, off Bank Street south. Because of her father’s language problems, they didn’t speak much.
At the Walkley office, the clerk there also refused to process the transaction.
Zehaf-Bibeau asked if he could have another piece of ID faxed. The clerk gave him a fax number.
To arrange the fax, Zehaf-Bibeau tried to make a call on his cellphone but the call didn’t go through. He left briefly to buy a calling card and returned to use the payphone inside the MTO office.
“While he was using the payphone, he was screaming again. He was just swearing, constantly saying, ‘Fuck, fuck, fuck,'” the woman said. “He was always fidgeting. He was just a weird guy.”
The MTO clerk said it would take an hour and a half to process the sale. The seller didn’t want to wait around that long so the clerk suggested he simply sign over the ownership card and remove the license plates, his daughter said.
Then, the woman said, Zehaf-Bibeau asked her father to just let him use the car for one day.
“He was like, can I please just use the car for one day? Like, I really need to do something. Just leave the plates on because if you take them off I can’t really use the car. By tomorrow, I’ll bring the plates back,” she said Zehaf-Bibeau pleaded.
Her father would not agree but Zehaf-Bibeau bought the car, anyway, paying $650 in cash. Her father signed over the ownership, removed his plates and left the car with Zehaf-Bibeau.
The woman was driving her mother to a medical appointment the next day when she heard the news of the shooting on the radio. She pulled up the story on her phone and saw a reference to a Toyota Corolla with no license plate, found between Parliament Hill and the National War Memorial.
Later, when she saw the man’s name and the photo of the vehicle, she realized it was her father’s old car.
On Wednesday, four RCMP officers came to their home and interviewed them both about their encounter with Zehaf-Bibeau. She gave the police the number from her cellphone.
“It was really scary to think this man was some psycho killer,” the woman said. “My father was in the same car with him and in the bureau. It’s so scary.”
Note: A previous version of this story referred to a Ministry of Transportation office at the Westgate Mall. In fact, the office is now a ServiceOntario location but does process motor-vehicle transactions.
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