2014 Saint-Jean-sur-Richelieu ramming attack

Legal documents show Couture-Rouleau became a Muslim convert in 2013 and started to refer to himself as Ahmad LeConverti (Ahmad the Converted).

Facebook activity and a CBC interview show that he had become a supporter of ISIL.

He posted images and links that were anti-American foreign policy, and links to anti-Semitic YouTube videos.

Global reported Facebook posts in both English and French about Allah and graphic posters with references to Islam's superiority over Christianity.

A Facebook friend who corresponded with Couture-Rouleau said, "So he was really mad that Canada actually supported the American bombing of [ISIS] in Syria and Iraq so I think that was the main motive in killing that Canadian soldier."

Another told Radio-Canada that Couture-Rouleau spent hours on the internet and devoured jihadist literature and dreamed of dying as a martyr.

According to information Radio-Canada obtained, he had convinced at least four or five people in his circle of friends to convert to Islam, but the friend said that Couture-Rouleau got carried away with an extreme interpretation of the Qur'an.

A friend said he was obsessed with practicing his new religion and trying to convert his friends.

The RCMP became aware of Couture-Rouleau after a relative alerted police to the man's terrorist leanings.

He wanted to travel to Iraq to fight with ISIL the summer before he perpetrated the attack in Quebec.

The 2014 Saint Jean sur Richelieu ramming attack was a terror car ramming that occurred in Quebec on October 20, 2014.

Two Canadian Forces members were hit by a lone wolf terrorist, Martin Couture-Rouleau.

Warrant officer Patrice Vincent died from injuries, while another soldier was injured, but survived.

The RCMP and the Government of Canada has characterized the homicide as a terrorist act by an Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant-inspired terrorist.

On October 20, 2014, Martin Couture-Rouleau deliberately rammed a car into a pair of Canadian Armed Forces soldiers in a shopping centre parking lot in Saint-Jean-sur-Richelieu, Quebec, Canada, at 11:30 a.m. ET.

He had been seen sitting in his car and watching for over two hours before the attack.

A police chase ensued.

The Toronto Sun reported that the suspect called 911 during the chase to say that he carried out his acts in the name of Allah.

The chase ended when Martin Couture-Rouleau lost control of his car, rolling it into a ditch and onto its roof.

A witness said that a spike belt was deployed.

According to witnesses, Couture-Rouleau exited the car and charged a female police officer with a knife.

Police shot him up to seven times and he was pronounced dead that evening in hospital.

A large knife was seen stuck in the ground according to eyewitnesses.

There were two victims.

Warrant officer Patrice Vincent (53), one of the two ramming victims, died in hospital the next day while the other soldier (whose name was not released) sustained non-life-threatening injures.

One of the soldiers was in uniform and one was not.

A statement by Prime Minister Stephen Harper indicated that government and police officials linked the attack to terrorism.

Warrant officer Patrice Vincent, 53, had served in the military for 28 years and was considering retiring to become a cabinet maker.

He had previously served as a refrigeration and mechanical technician engineer as well as a military firefighter.

Vincent's funeral was held on November 1, 2014.

A second Canadian Forces member was injured in the attack.

Martin Couture-Rouleau (died October 20, 2014, age 25) was a francophone Canadian living with his parents in Saint-Jean-sur-Richelieu at the time of the attack.

He was separated from his partner and their young child.

Couture-Rouleau had converted to Islam in the previous year, and was praying at a mosque "regularly."

He had owned a small power-washing business that failed.

His Canadian passport was revoked in June 2014 over concerns that he had "become radicalized after converting to Islam."

RCMP Commissioner Bob Paulson confirmed he was one of 90 Canadians under surveillance by the RCMP because they were suspected of wanting to join terrorist organizations.

The federal government immediately labelled the act as a terrorist attack.

According to Steven Blaney, Canadian Minister of Public Safety, the attack was "clearly linked to terrorist ideology."

The Prime Minister's office released a statement that said in part "The individual who struck the two CAF members with his car is known to federal authorities, including the Integrated National Security Enforcement Teams (the Integrated National Security Enforcement Teams are an anti-terrorism police unit). Federal authorities have confirmed that there are clear indications that the individual had become radicalized."