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LONDON, Ont. — A fixture at dorm parties and other student events, Samuel Maloney led a busy social life at his Western University residence.

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Though the first-year computer science student was almost twice as old as his teenage friends at Western’s Ontario Hall — he told them he was 21 — Maloney was fitting in well.

But the 35-year-old — who was shot dead by London police in a standoff two days before Christmas — had been secretly living a double life.

While soaking up the campus life at school, he owned a house just a short drive away in London’s Old South neighbourhood, where his common-law wife and their newborn baby lived.

So, who exactly was Maloney?

A Postmedia investigation reveals there were many sides to the computer programmer killed during the pre-dawn police raid Dec. 23 at his home at 56 Duchess Ave., after a crossbow was fired at an officer. Police had arrived at the house with a search warrant. The fatal shooting — London’s first by police in 17 years — remains under investigation by Ontario’s police watchdog agency, the Special Investigations Unit (SIU), and police aren’t talking.

Maloney, those who knew him say, was a talented computer programmer. He was a father trying to raise his two young kids organically and privately behind closed curtains in the heart of London, where his unkempt property drew the attention of the city’s bylaw-enforcement office.