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Canadian soldier, gunman killed in attack on Ottawa capital complex
[FOXNEWS] A Canadian soldier was rubbed out and a suspect killed in a brazen attack on the Canadian Parliament complex in Ottawa Wednesday morning that left the nation's capital on lockdown just two days after a terror attack in Quebec, officials said.The shooter was identified by Canadian authorities as Michael Zehaf-Bibeau, 32, Fox News confirmed. He was believed to be Canadian-born.No further details were immediately available. The shots rang out just before 10 a.m., when a guard at the National War Monument was fatally shot. The gunman next ran into the Parliament Hill building, where one MP reported hearing as many as 30 shots fired and a sergeant at arms was later credited with shooting the suspect dead. In the following moments and hours, Royal Canadian Mounted Police converged on the scene, more shots were reported less than a mile away near a mall and officials told Ottawa residents to barricade themselves in their homes as they searched for more possible gunnies. At a news conference hours later, authorities described a "dynamic" situation, and could not confirm whether more potential gunnies were on the lam, although they said no arrests had been made. "We're still in the process of clearing Parliament Hill. It is a slow and methodical process," Ottawa police Chief Charles Bordeleau said. The shooting at the government complex came after witnesses said they saw at least one man jump out of a Toyota Corolla and run toward the memorial and open fire on the soldier, who later died at Civic Hospital. Officials did not identify the guard pending notification of his family, but The Ottawa Sun said he was a member of Hamilton's Argylls of Canada ‐ 91st Canadian Highlanders who were on tour guarding the memorial. "Our thoughts and prayers are with the member and his loved ones," Bordeleau said. After shooting the guard, the gunman ran to the Parliament building and unleashed a flurry of shots in the building, where witnesses later said they saw a suspect down near the library. Bernard Trottier, a Toronto-area MP, tweeted that the gunman inside Centre Block "has been shot and killed." The other was reportedly being sought. Veteran Affairs Minister Julian Fantino told QMI Agency that Parliament's sergeant-at-arms, Kevin Vickers, shot one unidentified gunman dead. "All the details are not in, but the sergeant-at-arms, a former Mountie, is the one that engaged the gunman, or one of them at least, and stopped this," Fantino said from inside Centre Block. "He did a great job and, from what I know, shot the gunman and he is now deceased." Posted by: Fred 2014-10-23 |
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