Overview
- Dion Rudakubana said his retrospective view is that Axel targeted a children’s class to “hurt society” because children represent its future.
- He recounted seeing his brother leave home wearing a mask and pulling down his sleeves as the family found knife packaging hidden in a washing machine, yet no one called police.
- Messages shown from December 2022 recorded his fear of “something potentially fatal,” knife‑hiding in the house, and comparisons to a sociopathic film character.
- He described a November 30, 2021 confrontation in which Axel assaulted their father and tore off rental‑car wipers, prompting police attendance as the family feared for their father’s life.
- The inquiry revisited the March 17, 2022 bus incident where Axel was found with a knife after saying he wanted to be arrested to force a social‑media takedown, with evidence he had obtained seeds later used to make a crude form of ricin.