Re: Ottawa and Kamloops MP on Lockdown https://www.kamloopsthisweek.com/attack-parliament-kamloops-mp-senator-lockdown/
October 22nd, 2014
Attack on Parliament; Kamloops MP and senator in lockdown
A gunman shot and seriously wounded a soldier who was standing guard at the Canadian War Memorial in Ottawa on Wednesday, Oct. 22.
The gunman then went to Parliament Hill, where he was reportedly killed after trading shots with Parliament’s sergeant of arms.
The attack on Parliament Hill took place two days after two soldiers in Quebec were intentionally run down in a car driven by 25-year-old Martin Couture-Rouleau, who was one of 90 suspected extremists being watched by the RCMP.
Couture-Rouleau led police on a chase and was shot and killed when he emerged from his crashed vehicle with a knife in his hand.
In Ottawa, Kamloops-Thompson-Cariboo Conservative MP Cathy McLeod was on Parliament Hill, in a caucus meeting, when the gunman attacked at just before 7 a.m. Kamloops time.
MPs were locked down inside the buildings as police searched for any other gunmen involved in the attack.
KTW has been attempting to contact McLeod.
Conservative Sen. Nancy Greene Raine of Sun Peaks is also in Ottawa for Senate meetings and was in the Victoria Building on Wellington Street, across from the Parliament Buildings, when the attack occurred.
The senator’s husband, Al Raine, told KTW he had not spoken with his wife, but noted he did receive a four-word email from her: “In lockdown. I’m safe.”
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