Parliament Hill came under attack today after a man with a rifle shot a soldier standing guard at the National War Memorial in downtown Ottawa, before seizing a car and driving to the doors of Parliament Hill’s Centre Block nearby.
MPs and other witnesses reported several shots fired inside Parliament, and a gunman has been confirmed dead inside the building, shot by the House of Commons Sergeant-at-Arms, according to MPs’ eyewitness accounts.
The soldier’s condition has not been confirmed.
MP John Williamson tweeted that the Conservative has been told “one CAF soldier was killed,” adding “a moment of silence followed.” CBC News has confirmed the soldier is a reservist from Hamilton
The soldier has died, and also the man who shot him. No identification as yet on the shooter.
The Sergeant at Arms of the Canadian Parliament, a former RCMP officer, chased down the gunman in the hall way and killed him.
Now reports are saying that this shooter, like the man who ran down and killed a police officer in Montreal earlier this week, was a recent convert to Islam.