Pistol in jogger shooting linked with Paris deli attack

A pistol used in the attack on a deli in Paris that saw four hostages killed amid violence that lasted three days in the city has been linked with a jogger shooting in a city suburb two days prior.

Wednesday, Jan. 7, a 32-year-old man was shot twice while running by an unknown gunman who, according to police, fired five bullets from a Russian Tokarev pistol. The jogger was shot in Fontenay-aux-Roses and ballistics tests from the shooting have linked the gun to one used in the attack on a kosher supermarket by Amedy Coulibaly two days later where four hostages were killed. Coulibaly is believed to have been the one who killed the four hostages.

The shooting was not originally linked to the violence that erupted around the French capital last week, though the killing of a policewoman the following day not far from where the jogger was shot led police to suspect the shootings may be linked. Coulibaly is the leading suspect in both shootings. The jogger was shot only hours before 12 were killed at the weekly satirical magazine Charlie Hebdo.

According to police, Coulibaly, along with the two brothers who attacked Charlie Hebdo, were members of a Islamist militant group based in Paris.