Synagogue shooting suspect's online username alluded to killing Jews weeks before attack, friend says

According to a childhood friend CBC News spoke to, Sean Ward — a former member of the Canadian Armed Forces (CAF) — tried using a slur for Jewish people combined with the word "killer" as a username for an online game, but settled on "kitekiller" after it was censored. The friend was with Ward online on Sept. 2 while they waited to play the video game Once Human when Ward attempted to use the username.

"There was that one game we played … he tried to name himself the k--e killer, and it changed to 'kitekiller' because you can't obviously have that on there," said his friend.

The word is a deeply offensive term used against Jews.

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