Developing: French authorities are investigating a deadly shooting in Trappes, a suburb west of Paris, after a gunman fired from a vehicle and a suspect was taken into custody, according to multiple newsroom reports.
BBC News reported that one person was killed and four others were injured in the Trappes incident, citing French Prime Minister Sébastien Lecornu, who said the suspected attacker had been apprehended and placed in police custody. The outlet said the National Anti-Terrorism Prosecutor’s Office is monitoring the case.
Other reports published later on Friday said prosecutors were treating the case as a possible terrorist attack. Le Monde, citing AFP and officials, said French anti-terror prosecutors opened an investigation into the shooting in Trappes and nearby La Verrière as a “murder in connection with a terrorist enterprise.”
The Associated Press, in a report carried by ABC News, said a suspect was arrested near Trappes and taken into police custody, while the motive remained unclear. Euronews also reported that the man was arrested in nearby Coignières after opening fire in Trappes and neighboring La Verrière.
Details have varied across reports, including the exact number of wounded. BBC News reported four injured, while other outlets said several people were hurt and that at least one child may have been among the victims. French authorities have not yet publicly settled all of those details in the supplied reporting.
For now, the confirmed core of the story is that a shooting in Trappes left at least one person dead, several others injured, and a suspect in custody, with prosecutors investigating whether the attack was terror-related.
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