Overview
- The attack occurred around 9:30 p.m. Sunday at the rue des Petites-Maries and rue Longue des Capucins intersection in Belsunce near Gare Saint-Charles.
- Witness accounts and police sources say three masked men arrived in a black Peugeot and fired about a dozen rounds with at least one large-calibre long gun.
- One man died of his injuries and another was wounded in the leg and reportedly fled, according to emergency services and police.
- The shooters fled while reportedly shouting allegiance to the 'DZ Mafia,' and a car believed to be their vehicle was later found burned in the 15th arrondissement.
- A wide perimeter was sealed as scientific police and the judicial police opened a homicide probe with possible links to drug trafficking, with no arrests or public identification announced.