Two police employees in France were stabbed to death by an attacker claiming allegiance to the Islamic State Monday evening.
A police commander and his wife, who was a police administrator, were both slain in their home west of Paris, according to The BBC.
The suspect, identified as 25-year-old Larossi Abballa, lay in wait outside the officers' home before the ambush took place. After killing the police commander, he went inside the house and killed his wife and held their three-year-old son hostage.
Abballa was fatally shot by police after they entered the residence in Magnanville around midnight. The young boy survived the ordeal.
Paris Prosecutor Francois Molin told reporters that Abballa pledged his loyalty to IS leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi during negotiations with police stated that he was answering his call "to kill infidels."
Officials said that Abballa had spent time in jail over jihadist links and had a list of targets including public figures. He had been under recent police surveillance, including a wiretap.
French President Francois Hollande called the attack "unquestionably a terrorist act."
