UK Parliament Attack Suspect Identified
LONDON (WJZ/AP) -- British police have identified the person responsible for the terror attack near Parliament as 52-year-old Khalid Masood.
An American man is among the four victims as Masood was killed by police.
Police say it's the deadliest terror attack to hit the U.K. in 12 years. An ISIS-affiliated news agency claimed that the extremist group was behind Wednesday's outrage, which killed four people, and left 29 more requiring hospital treatment. Six people remain critically ill.
Overnight, police raided properties linked to Masood, who had a petty criminal record, but was not currently under investigation for any links to violent extremism.
Nonetheless, ISIS claimed Thursday that he was a soldier of the Islamic state. Investigators say he stabbed policeman Keith Palmer to death and murdered Aysha Frade, a teacher and mother, with his car. Along with American Kurt Cochran from Utah, who was in London with his wife Melissa for their wedding anniversary.
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She was injured and is still in the hospital.
The injured came from 11 countries. Among them were French high school students and a Romanian architect.
In Parliament, politicians observed a minute of silence and then heard a tough minded message from Prime Minister Theresa May.
"We are not afraid and our resolve will never waiver int he face of terrorism," she said.
Thursday night, thousands of Londoners gathered in Trafalgar Square for a vigil led by the city's Muslim mayor, Sadiq Khan to pay their respects and also reflect on the lives lost.
A fourth victim, a 75-year-old man was taken off life support late Thursday. Less than 24 hours after the attack, Westminster Bridge was reopened to traffic.
The police say in a statement Thursday that Masood was born in southeastern England and was most recently living in the West Midlands, in central England.
Police say Masood, who had a number of aliases, wasn't the subject of any current investigation and that "there was no prior intelligence about his intent to mount a terrorist attack."
He had been arrested previously for assault, possession of offensive weapons and public order offenses.
His first conviction was in November 1983 for criminal damage and his last was in December 2003 for possession of a knife.
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