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Suspect in Canada shooting arrested

An emergency response team member runs past a trailer where murder suspect 24-year-old Justin Bourque resides in Moncton, New Brunswick on Thursday, June 5, 2014. Bourque was arrested early Friday. (AP Photo/The Canadian Press, Andrew Vaughan)
Royal Canadian Mounted Police officer Damien Theriault and Mayor George LeBlanc pause to collect themselves before addressing the media during a late-night news conference at City Hall in Moncton, New Brunswick on Wednesday June 4, 2014. Three police officers were shot dead and two others injured in a rare case of gun violence in the east coast Canadian province of New Brunswick, officials said. (AP Photo/The Canadian Press, Marc Grandmaison)
Royal Canadian Mounted Police officers take cover behind their vehicles in Moncton, New Brunswick, Canada, on Wednesday, June 4, 2014. Three police officers were shot dead and two others injured Wednesday in the east coast Canadian province of New Brunswick, officials said, and authorities were searching for a suspect. The RCMP in New Brunswick confirmed on its Twitter feed that three officers were dead and two others had sustained non-life threatening injuries. (AP Photo/The Canadian Press, Viktor Pivovarov, Moncton Times & Transcript)
A Codiac Royal Canadian Mounted Police officer drives with the rear door window shattered by a bullet in Moncton, New Brunswick, Canada, on Wednesday, June 4, 2014. Three police officers were shot dead and two others injured Wednesday in the east coast Canadian province of New Brunswick, officials said, and authorities were searching for a suspect. T (AP Photo/The Canadian Press, Viktor Pivovarov, Moncton Times & Transcript)
Police officers take cover behind their vehicles in Moncton, New Brunswick, Canada, on Wednesday June 4, 2014. Three police officers were shot dead and two others injured Wednesday in the east coast Canadian province of New Brunswick, officials said, and authorities were searching for a suspect. (AP Photo/Moncton Times & Transcript, Ron Ward via The Canadian Press )
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Police attend a roadblock on a street in Moncton, New Brunswick, on Thursday, June 5, 2014. RCMP officers combed the streets and woods of this normally tranquil city Thursday in search of a man suspected of killing three officers in the deadliest attack on their ranks in nearly a decade. The suspect, 24-year-old Justin Bourque, was armed with high-powered long firearms. He was spotted three times while eluding the massive manhunt that emptied roads and kept families hunkered in their homes in Moncton, an east coast city where gun violence is rare. (AP Photo/The Canadian Press, Andrew Vaughan)
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ASSOCIATED PRESS
June 5, 2014 - 9:23 pm
 

MONCTON, New Brunswick — A man suspected in the shooting deaths of three Royal Canadian Mounted Police and the wounding of two others in a rare case of gun violence in eastern Canada was arrested early Friday, police said.

Paul Greene, a spokesman with the RCMP, said Justin Bourque was arrested at around 12:30 a.m. The 24-year-old Bourque had been wanted after the shooting Wednesday evening in the northwest area of the city.

Frightened residents had huddled in their homes for a second night as police scoured the eerily quiet streets in search of Bourque.

A motive for the shootings was not known, and Bourque’s neighbors described a withdrawn man who collected guns and was an avid hunter of birds, deer and moose.

Bourque, who was armed with high-powered long firearms, was spotted three times Thursday but still managed to elude the massive manhunt that all but shut down this city of 69,000 people about 180 miles (290 kilometers) east of the Maine border.

Dozens of police officers with their weapons drawn could be seen in a part of the search area, some glancing around buildings. Others, including members of a tactical unit, were patrolling streets within the cordoned off area. Armored security trucks were also visible.

Bourque was wearing military camouflage and carrying two rifles in a picture released by police on Twitter.

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