Overview

• Around 1 a.m., an unidentified gunman targeted two people in the Rougemont area of Sevran, killing one and injuring the other.
• The attacker used a shotgun; the deceased was shot in the head and the second victim sustained a hand wound that required surgery.
• Police forensic teams and a medical examiner examined the scene, and a sawed-off pump-action shotgun that could be the weapon was recovered in the alley, according to a police source.
• The judicial police opened an investigation, an autopsy is planned at the Paris medico-legal institute, and no arrests have been announced.
• Rougemont has seen repeated shootings over the past five years, with several cases handled by national anti-organized-crime magistrates (JUNALCO).