Overview

• A 71-year-old man was taken into custody in Harbonnières after allegedly firing a shotgun at his wife and son and setting his home ablaze.
• The suspect’s 64-year-old wife escaped to neighbors at around 2:45 p.m. reporting she had been shot at along with their son.
• Gendarmes dispatched 75 officers, a GIGN intervention team, a negotiator and a helicopter to the rural scene where the standoff lasted several hours.
• Investigators discovered a charred body in the destroyed house, which they believe is the couple’s approximately 45-year-old son.
• Judicial authorities have launched a homicide inquiry and forensic experts are examining evidence to reconstruct the shootings and ensuing fire.