During an interview broadcast Thursday on Canadian television station CTV, Mr. Driver’s father Wayne Driver said he doesn’t blame police for his son’s death.
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Strathroy is about 40 kilometres west of London, Ontario.
Would-be jihadist Aaron Driver would not have been apprehended without quick and close collaboration among security agencies on both sides of the border, officials say.
Reports on Twitter late on Wednesday said police had raided a home in Strathroy in relation to the RCMP threat incident.
An early-morning tip from FBI investigators triggered a “race against time” as police scrambled to identify and locate a balaclava-wearing would-be suicide bomber they feared was on the verge of killing innocent Canadians.
Adam Driver, the terrorism suspect killed by Canadian police Wednesday night, had planned to detonate explosives in an urban center during rush hour within 72 hours, police said. A posting on the agency’s website said his only mistake was “in releasing his video. before carrying out the attack”.
Canadian Public Safety Minister Ralph Goodale said he had spoken to Prime Minister Justin Trudeau about the events “to confirm that public safety has been and continues to be properly protected”.
RCMP investigators quickly identified Driver as the man behind the balaclava.
Aaron Driver died Wednesday as Royal Canadian Mounted Police confronted and shot at him while he was getting in a taxi in Strathroy, Ontario.
Police said Mr. Driver first came to their attention in December 2014, when they received a complaint about comments he had posted on social media.
Canadian police killed a man, who was a suspected terrorist on Wednesday.
When the RCMP recently received information from the Federal Bureau of Investigation, including “a video of a man in the final stages of an explosives attack”, they reached out to law enforcement partners across the country and identified the man in the video as Driver.
In the video, aired at a news conference in Ottawa, a masked Driver is seen railing against Western “enemies of Islam” and warning that the only solution would be the “spilling of your blood”. He also pledged allegiance to the Islamic State militant group (ISIS) leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, as many other lone attackers have done.
Cabana says while Driver was not under 24/7 surveillance, he was being monitored. Driver supported that attack online.
Canadian broadcaster CBC identified him as Aaron Driver, saying he was shot dead during a police raid in Strathroy, a residential area in southern Ontario about 220 kilometers (140 miles) southwest of Toronto.
“I have nothing, absolutely nothing to say”, Duffield told CBC News. Metrolinx raised its “level of vigilance and worked closely with national, provincial and local security and police services on our response”, spokeswoman Anne Marie Aikins said. The sources declined to be identified as they did not have permission to speak to media. He said such notices are commonly issued after security incidents around the world or if the TTC is advised of threats closer to home.
“We had the house contained, but we weren’t still aware at that point there was anyone in the residence”, said Jennifer Strachan, the RCMP assistant commissioner.
Goodale said peace bonds typically allow courts to restrict the activity of those they are imposed on, but also aim to shift them away from outside pressure – such as from a terrorist organization.
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That investigation started while Driver lived at a Winnipeg address.
