Shooting near Paris kills one in what Macron calls a racist terror attack
Summary
At least one person was killed and four people were injured in a shooting near Paris, French Prime Minister Sébastien Lecornu said on Friday 23 October, according to NBC News. A gunman firing from a vehicle in the Paris suburbs killed one person and wounded at least five others in what French authorities describe as a racially motivated attack, The Philadelphia Inquirer reported later that day. On Saturday 24 October The Philadelphia Inquirer and ABC News reported that the man killed in Friday's shooting rampage was an amateur mixed martial arts fighter, according to the fighter's club, the victim of what French President Emmanuel Macron called a racist terror attack.
Latest: The man killed in Friday's shooting rampage near Paris was an amateur mixed martial arts fighter, according to the fighter's club, The Philadelphia Inquirer and ABC News reported, the victim of what French President Emmanuel Macron called a racist terror attack.
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How it unfolded
Saturday 24 October
The man killed in Friday's shooting rampage near Paris was an amateur mixed martial arts fighter, according to the fighter's club, The Philadelphia Inquirer and ABC News reported, the victim of what French President Emmanuel Macron called a racist terror attack.
- 05:39ABC NewsMan killed in suspected racist attack near Paris identified as martial arts fighter
- 05:18The Philadelphia InquirerMan killed in suspected racist attack near Paris identified as martial arts fighter
Friday 23 October
At least one person was killed and four people were injured in a shooting near Paris, Prime Minister Sébastien Lecornu said, according to NBC News, and The Philadelphia Inquirer later reported that a gunman firing from a vehicle in the Paris suburbs killed one person and wounded at least five others in what French authorities describe as a racially motivated attack.
- 15:32The Philadelphia InquirerA shooting in the Paris suburbs kills 1 and wounds five in a suspected racist attack
- 07:37NBC NewsOne person killed in shooting near Paris, French Prime Minister says