an individual shot dead in the 8th arrondissement, the perpetrators on the run

An individual targeted by gunshots died of his injuries on Wednesday May 24 in the 8th arrondissement of Paris, France Télévisions learned from a police source. The perpetrators of the shots, whose number is unknown at this stage, fled, according to a police source at franceinfo.

According to a source close to the case at franceinfo, the victim was an employee of a store on boulevard de Courcelles in Paris. She then found refuge there, according to another source familiar with the matter at franceinfo. The individual had been taken care of by the emergency services. There are no other injuries reported at this stage, a police source told franceinfo.

In the evening, the Paris prosecutor gave some information on the profile of the victim, “known to justice for various acts of violence and common law”. An investigation for murder in an organized gang has been opened and entrusted to the criminal brigade of the Paris judicial police.