One of three suspects in the attack on French magazine Charlie Hebdo, 18-year-old Hamyd Mourad, surrendered to police, after a daylong manhunt. Two more suspects, brothers Cherif and Said Kouachi, are still at large.
U.S. officials initially told NBC that two suspects were brought into custody while the other was killed. The officials said later, however, that those accounts were unconfirmed.
The trio are suspected of being the three gunmen who stormed into the magazine’s offices in Paris on Wednesday, killing 12 and wounding almost a dozen others.
The brothers are in their early 30s, French nationals, and reside in Paris. Mourad is reportedly homeless and 18 years old. Reuters says he may be from Reims, and some reports indicated that the men were heading that way.
The Liberation and Guardian newspapers also reported that the suspects were arrested.
Not much has come out about the suspects, though it appears that one, Cherif, was arrested as a student back in 2005 when he tried to leave for Syria to fight against U.S.-led forces there.
He “knowingly joined the radical Islamists and were determined to fight in their ranks ... and willing to die,” the judge said at the time. He and another student were setenced to three years in prison, but got 18 months of the sentence suspended. But his lawyer insisted he was not religious, engaging in activities such as drinking alcohol.
An official told the Associated Press that the three men have been linked to a Yemeni terrorist network.
