The armed man arrested after allegedly ramming his truck through the front gate of Rideau Hall always had a friendly word for customers who came to the grocery store where he worked in a small municipality about 400 kilometres northwest of Winnipeg, the town reeve said.
The armed man arrested after allegedly ramming his truck through the front gate of Rideau Hall always had a friendly word for customers who came to the grocery store where he worked in a small municipality about 400 kilometres northwest of Winnipeg, the town reeve said.
Corey Hurren, of Bowsman, Man., was a “good community member,” known for his friendly demeanour behind the local grocer’s meat counter, and for cooking garlic sausage his customers raved about, said Walter Pacmaniuk, the reeve of the municipality of Mintonas-Bowsman.
“When I walked by him, it was not just, ‘No answer,’ it was, ‘Hello, how are you doing today?'” Pacamaniuk said.
The reeve said he didn’t know Hurren personally, aside from their friendly but brief interactions at the Co-op grocery store in the neighbouring community of Swan River, Man.
“We’re all a bit shocked that something happened in Ottawa,” he said.
Hurren, whom CBC News has confirmed is the man in custody, was armed when his vehicle ran into the main pedestrian entrance at Rideau Hall Thursday around 6:30 a.m. ET.