CORRECTION: ABC News reports that the youngest suspect, 18-year-old Hamyd Mourad, surrendered and is in custody. The other two suspects, Said & Cherif Kouachi, are still at large.
UPDATE: According to two senior-level anti-terrorism officials, 18-year-old Hamyd Mourad was killed in a police raid, while the two brothers, Said & Cherif Kouachi, have been taken into custody.
We have some news regarding the attack on Paris’ Charlie Hebdo office on Wednesday morning.
While the three gunman are still on the loose, France’s top security officials have released the identities of the killers, and are now closer than ever to capturing them.
Two of the shooters are thought to be brothers from France named Said Kouachi and Cherif Kouachi, both in their early 30s. An 18-year-old named Hamyd Mourad is suspected to be the third shooter, but his nationality is still unclear.
[ Related: 12 Dead In Terror Attack On Paris’ Charlie Hebdo ]
After raising the country’s security alert to its highest degree, it has been confirmed that the shooters are connected to a terrorist network based out of Yemen and that the shooting was in response to the magazine’s many depictions of the Prophet Muhammad.
Among the 12 killed in the shooting include, by pen-name, Charlie editor Charb as well as cartoonists Cabu, Tignous, and Wolinski.
Vigils for the slain have popped up around the world, most notably in Trafalgar Square, London as well as the entirety of France.
[Image via Manu Fernandez/AP Images.]
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