The suspect in the Berlin Christmas market attack was shot dead at a police checkpoint near Milan, according to Italian officials, bringing an end to an international manhunt for the 24-year-old Tunisian that had kept the continent on edge as the holidays fast approached.
Anis Amri was killed, Italian Interior Minister Marco Minniti said, after a dramatic 3:30 a.m. encounter at a routine checkpoint in the Piazza I Maggio in the Sesto San Giovanni area of greater Milan. Two officers spotted Amri on foot, and requested his identification. Amri, Minniti said, responded by pulling a gun, shooting one officer in the shoulder.
The patrol fired back, killing him.
“He was the most wanted man in Europe” said Minniti. “There is absolutely no doubt that the person killed is Anis Amri.”
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