Paris on High Alert After Officers Shot, One Fatally, on Famed Champs-Elysees
Thursday, April 20, 2017 - 15:31
in Mathematics & Economics
France was on high alert Thursday after one police officer was killed and another wounded in a shooting in central Paris, the National Police Union reported. The person suspected of opening fire on the officers on the Champs-Elysees was also shot and killed, Reuters reported, citing a police source. NBC News could not immediately confirm that. In the aftermath, dozens of police officers descended on the street and began chasing pedestrians away.