Police are still searching for a shooter who left at least one person injured Wednesday morning at Parliament Hill in Ottawa, according to CBC News and the Globe and Mail newsaper.
A body was visible outside Parliament Hill’s Centre Block, where the main legislative building is located, according to the Globe and Mail. It’s unclear whether that body is of a law enforcement official or of a suspect.
Separately, a gunman injured a soldier standing guard at the War Memorial in the city’s downtown area. That victim has been taken to a hospital.
It’s unclear at this point if the same gunman carried out the shootings at both the War Memorial and Parliament Hill and whether there is more than one shooter involved.
Two Canadian members of Parliament tweeted a conflicting account of what happened to the suspected gunman. Bernard Trottier and Bob Zimmer said that the gunman inside Parliament Hill’s Centre Block was shot and killed:
Gunman at Parliament’s Centre Block has been shot and killed
— Bernard Trottier (@btrottier) October 22, 2014
Shots fired at the HoC…lone gunman is deceased. We are ok.
— Bob Zimmer MP (@bobzimmermp) October 22, 2014
The mounties didn’t get their man?
The Ottawa Constable is saying that there was more than one suspect as in ‘others’ (multiple, more than 2) flew the scene.
I don’t see those two tweets as “conflicting.”
Catherine, get a grip on yourself. The tweets are not conflicting. Maybe this sort of thing is beyond you.
He wouldn’t still be on the loose here in America. With all of our citizens armed, perps like this are always quickly subdued by a law-abiding bystander, exercising his God-given Second Amendment rights to protect the freedom of all.
That’s why events such as this never occur in the United States. All of the would-be perps are deterred by the specter of millions of law-abiding gun owners, each of whom are willing to do their duty on a moment’s notice. Rather than attacking people in public, such criminals sit at home, reeling in horror.