A Canadian minister said that a gunman who fired shots Wednesday inside the Centre Block on Parliament Hill in Ottawa was shot dead by law enforcement.
Veterans Affairs minister Julian Fantino, who was in a meeting with Prime Minister Stephen Harper when the gunfire began, told the Toronto Sun that a sergeant-at-arms took down the gunman.
“All the details are not in but the sergeant-at-arms, a former Mountie, is the one that engaged the gunman, or one of them at least, and stopped this,” Fantino told the newspaper. “He did a great job and from what I know shot the gunman and he is now deceased.”
Police were investigating “several” shooting incidents — at the Centre Block, the Ottawa War Memorial, and a nearby shopping mall — and looking for possibly three suspects.
A soldier who was shot by a gunman while standing guard at the War Memorial has since died of his injuries.
