
Under the terms of a peace bond, Aaron Driver, shown here in 2015, was not allowed to associate with any terrorist organization and was prohibited from using a computer or cellphone. He first caught the attention of the Canadian Security Intelligence Service in October 2014 when he was tweeting support for the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria under the alias Harun Abdurahman. He had also said Michael Zehaf-Bibeau's attack on Parliament Hill in October of that year was justified.
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but living beside him, I would feel not safe." ISIS supporter on peace bondĭriver agreed to the conditions of a peace bond when he appeared in a Winnipeg court earlier this year after his arrest in June 2015.īy agreeing to the peace bond, Driver was "consenting or acknowledging that there are reasonable grounds to fear that he may participate, contribute - directly or indirectly - in the activity of a terrorist group." I'm pretty sure they had close tabs on this guy. "I think they should have, just so that we're well aware of this, so that we can keep an eye out ourselves too," said Harry Denharton, who lives nearby and heard two loud bangs Wednesday afternoon but only later learned what had happened. Other neighbours said they should have been warned that Driver lived near them. He would just hang out in the backyard most of the time." "I just thought it was strange how he would come over there and not even go into the house.
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I thought someone was living in the back shed because I could hear TV at some points and rustling, and my dog would go nuts at the back shed. "He wouldn't go in the house, he'd go in the back. She added that she wasn't sure how Driver was related to the family. Driver didn't appear to live in the home on a regular basis, but would come and go, she said. She said a man and woman, three young teenagers and a young boy moved into the house about a year ago. A senior police official told The Canadian Press on Wednesday that the man allegedly planned to use a bomb to carry out a suicide attack in a public area.ĭuration 0:48 Neighbours say Aaron Driver mostly kept to himself 0:48

Police told Driver's family they had to shoot him because he had another device and planned to detonate it.

TTC, GO transit warned of security threat yesterday.The taxi driver received minor injuries and police are awaiting results of an autopsy to determine what killed Driver.

RCMP told the man's family that Driver was shot after he detonated an explosive device in the back seat of a cab. Federal Bureau of Investigation tipped off the RCMP about a person who was potentially planning a terrorist attack in Canada, says Reuters, which led the Mounties to a small Ontario town where a known ISIS sympathizer died in a confrontation with officers.Īfter receiving the tip Wednesday morning, police responded to what they called "a potential terrorist threat" in Strathroy, at the home of Aaron Driver, 24, who had been under a peace bond for openly supporting ISIS on social media.
