An unidentified gunman shot dead a man and injured a woman on Monday in Paris before fleeing on a motorcycle, in what the local mayor said appeared to be a private quarrel and not terrorism-related.
The attacker fired several shots at the Henry Dunant private geriatric hospital run by the Red Cross in Paris's upmarket 16th district, sources close to the investigation said.
"One person died and one is seriously injured," a fire service source said.
The two victims were taken into the hospital for treatment after the shooting. The man died from his wounds.
The hospital also runs a Covid-19 vaccination centre.
"It is not a terrorist attack, it was probably a case of score-settling," Francis Szpiner, mayor of the 16th arrondissement, told reporters.
The Paris prosecutor's office, which has opened a murder investigation, said the man who was killed was 33 years old and had a police record. The woman, also 33 years old, was in a critical condition in hospital. She works as a security guard at the hospital.
The prosecutor said there appeared to be no link between the two victims and that the dead man had been targeted by the gunman.
An eyewitness told Reuters the man was shot in the head several times while he was on the ground.
"I heard six loud shots while I was having lunch around 1.30 pm (1130 GMT)," the caretaker of a nearby building told AFP.
"I went out immediately, and I saw a young Black man on the ground, face down, outside the hospital.
"He was maybe 20 or 30 years old and he was already dead," said the caretaker, who declined to give her name.
The hospital is situated close to the river Seine about four kilometres (2.5 miles) south of the Eiffel Tower and near the Parc des Princes stadium, home of the Paris Saint-Germain football club.
(FRANCE 24 with REUTERS and AFP)
