The suspect in the Strasbourg Christmas Market shooting has been killed.

Police special forces secure the scene where the confrontation took place. NBC News. 

The suspect in the Strasbourg Christmas Market shooting that killed three people has been shot and killed by police. NBC News. 29 year old Cherif Chekatt was confronted and killed in a shootout in the same city as the attack occurred. Chekatt inexplicably managed to escape after the initial shooting and had been on the run since. Chekatt had a lengthy criminal record of 27 offenses and had been imprisoned in France, Germany and Switzerland. 

My Comment:

A quick update to a previous post, they finally caught the Strasbourg shooter. Like I said before I was pretty amazed that Chekatt had escaped in the first place. Most mass attackers like this either don't have a plan for escape or never get the opportunity. Chekatt was one of the lone exceptions and it was pretty shocking that he was able to evade justice for this long. 

There are pictures out there of Chekatt's body on the scene. I feel they are too graphic to post here, due to blogger's TOS, so you will have to look it up yourself if you want to see it. I will say that it appeared that Chekatt was armed with a revolver when he was confronted by the police, and apparently shot at them, which means them shooting him was even more justified than usual when confronting a terrorist. My guess is that was his backup gun after he ran out of ammo for the rifle he used during the attack. 

I wasn't able to recognize what kind of revolver it was, but I will say that Chekatt was still a major threat with that gun. Though a low capacity and slow reloads are detrimental to a mass shooter when it comes to revolvers, it's obvious that he could have shot and killed a few more people if he hadn't been stopped. Good on the French police for stopping this guy. 

There hasn't been much news about what connections, if any, Chekatt had with terror groups. I know that ISIS has claimed him as one of their own, but that doesn't mean too much. They tend to claim anyone who was even inspired by ISIS, or even have nothing to do with them in general, regardless. My guess is that he did have some connection, even if news on that front is scarce.