The gunman who killed a soldier at a war memorial and then opened fire inside Canada's parliament building had not been under surveillance, police admit.
Michael Zehaf-Bibeau had wanted to travel to Syria but was not on a list of around 90 "high-risk" individuals.
Police say the 32-year-old Muslim convert had a passport application delayed over concerns about extremism.
CCTV footage shows people fleeing as Zehaf-Bibeau ran into the country's parliament complex in the capital Ottawa on Wednesday.
After entering the building, he 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 reservist Nathan Cirillo at the National War Memorial.
The slain soldier was given a hero's send-off in Ottawa on Friday, with members of his regiment marching in procession before a motorcade bound for his hometown of Hamilton, Ontario.
Police earlier said Zehaf-Bibeau had a criminal record for violent and drug-related offences.
"He is an interesting individual in the sense he had a very developed criminality," said Royal Canadian Mounted Police (RCMP) Commissioner Bob Paulson.
Commissioner Paulson said he also had a history of "violence and of drugs and of mental instability".
He added the delay over Zehaf-Bibeau's passport application may have been one of the reasons why he carried 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 a person who has been charged with a terrorism-related offence in Canada, the RCMP said.
Authorities say Zehaf-Bibeau acted alone and the Ottawa attack is not being linked with the killing of another soldier in Quebec on Monday.
His mother, Susan Bibeau, said she was crying for the victims of the shooting, but not 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 said.
She added that her son was a social misfit who had lost his way.
"(He) was lost and did not fit in," Ms Bibeau 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."
It has emerged Zehaf-Bibeau was not among 93 high-risk people being monitored by authorities.
Police were asked to carry out background checks when he applied for the passport, but he had not been placed under surveillance.
A former friend who once lived with Zehaf-Bibeau at a shelter for the homeless in Vancouver said he 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 he wanted to travel to Libya and join Islamic State.
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