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(NBC NEWS) A police officer was fatally shot in a Paris suburb early Thursday, but the incident appeared unrelated to the execution of 12 people at a satirical magazine that ran cartoons of the Prophet Muhammad.
The shooting occurred in southwestern suburb of Montrouge at about 8 a.m. local time (2 a.m. ET). French Interior Minister Bernard Cazeneuve told reporters at the scene that two police officers had been shot and the suspect was “still at large.”
France was marking a day of mourning as the massive manhunt continued for two heavily-armed brothers suspected of carrying out the massacre at Charlie Hebdo. Prime Minister Manuel Valls said that seven people had been arrested since Wednesday’s attack. Police sources told Reuters they were mostly acquaintances of the two main suspects.
