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So this is going to a monthly thing now like retro Js?
(CNN)Two gunmen stormed a Copenhagen, Denmark, building where controversial cartoonist Lars Vilks and his supporters had gathered Saturday, killing a man and wounding three police officers before fleeing the scene, police said.
Helle Merete Brix -- the founder of the Lars Vilks Committee, created two years ago in support of the Swedish cartoonist whose portrayals of the Prophet Mohammed angered many in the Muslim world -- told CNN that security personnel on site moved her and others to safe areas after shots rang out.
She and Vilks ended up in a storage room together, holding hands, until police told them it was OK to come out.
"We have never taken any chances," Brix said, referring to the heavy security from police, Danish intelligence services and Vilks' own security guards at this and other committee events. "What we have so much been frightened would happen happened."
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After the attack, what appeared to be "two armed men" dressed in dark clothes carjacked a civilian's dark Volkswagen Polo and drove away, according to Danish police spokesman Joergen Skov. That vehicle was later located between two train stations.
The gunmen, though, remained at large Saturday night.
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Copenhagen police issued this photo of an individual in connection with Saturday's terror attack.
The 40-year-old man they killed hasn't been identified. Nor have authorities identified the three wounded law enforcement officers -- two with Danish intelligence and one police officer -- though Skov did say none of them suffered serious injuries.
Given Islamic extremists' documented threats against Vilks and their willingness to act on similar threats -- as proven last month in France -- Danish Prime Minister Helle Thorning-Schmidt said, "Everything points to ... the shooting in Oesterbro (being) a political assassination and therefore a terror attack."
Thorning-Schmidt vowed that "all resources will be used to find (those responsible) and bring them before a judge" for an attack she said filled her "with deep anger."
"We have some difficult days ahead," the Prime Minister said. "... But in Denmark, we will never bow to violence."
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