«…the moment they tried to arrest the man they spotted in the Neudorf neighborhood, he started shooting.»
French police shot and killed Cherif Chekatt Thursday, the man responsible for the Christmas market shooting in Strasbourg. Police put out this tweet which reads “End of the hunt.” The message in red reads, “The assailant in the deadly attack in Strasbourg has been neutralized.”
#Strasbourg Fin de la traque. pic.twitter.com/58qZmhAFQI
— Police Nationale 67 (@PoliceNat67) December 13,2018
According to the Associated Press, the prosecutor in charge of the case was heading to the scene to verify the body belonged to Chekatt. There’s also a brief description of how the shooting took place:
Christophe Castaner said from Strasbourg late Thursday that police spotted an individual who matched the description of 29-year-old Cherif Chekatt. He has been the focus of a massive manhunt since Tuesday’s attack.
Castaner says the moment they tried to arrest the man they spotted in the Neudorf neighborhood, he started shooting. The minister says police returned fire, killing the man.
Neudorf is where the suspect last was seen after the Tuesday attack that killed three people…
An unnamed official also told the AP the man police shot “was armed with a pistol and a knife.
