Toulouse, France (CNN) -- The French police siege to capture a suspected al Qaeda-trained militant came to a bloody end Thursday morning when commandos shot Mohammed Merah in the head as he fired wildly back at them, authorities said. Merah emerged from a bathroom in his apartment and fired more than 30 shots at police as they burst in to end a standoff that had lasted more than 31 hours, Paris prosecutor Francois Molins said. He jumped out a window onto a balcony, still shooting, and was found dead on the ground, officials said. Two police officers were injured in the raid, Interior Minister Claude Gueant said.
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Mohammed Merah was on the U.S. no-fly list, a U.S. intelligence official says
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President Sarkozy says Merah was not a madman, but a monster and a fanatic
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Merah is shot in the head during a raid by security forces, ending the long standoff
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Police say Merah killed 3 soldiers, a rabbi and 3 Jewish children
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The shootings began March 11 and ended Monday with the slaying of the rabbi and the children at a @placeholder school in Toulouse.
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@placeholder is not racist or anti-Semitic, Sarkozy added, and the tragic events of the past few days have shown that the nation is stronger when it is united and lives by its values.
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France is not racist or anti-Semitic, @placeholder added, and the tragic events of the past few days have shown that the nation is stronger when it is united and lives by its values.
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Police, who said the same guns were used in all three attacks, launched an intense manhunt and late Tuesday night zeroed in on the apartment, about 3 kilometers (1.8 miles) from the @placeholder school.