Paris knife attacker suspected of killing teenager
The Peninsula
Nanterre, France: A knifeman who stabbed a French police officer near the Champs Elysees avenue in Paris is suspected of having killed a 16 year old t...
Nanterre, France: A knifeman who stabbed a French police officer near the Champs-Elysees avenue in Paris is suspected of having killed a 16-year-old teenager earlier in the day, police sources and prosecutors said Friday.
On Thursday, one police officer shot a man after he attacked another with a knife. The assailant -- identified by a source in the prefecture as a 27-year-old Senegalese national previously known to police -- later died of his wounds.
On Friday, the Nanterre public prosecutor's office told AFP that the attacker is suspected of having committed a murder in Courbevoie, a northwestern suburb of Paris, earlier on Thursday.
According to police sources, the suspect fatally stabbed a 16-year-old teenager in an apartment in Courbevoie before fleeing.
The attacker's parents told police that their son had been squatting in the apartment.
