A man was shot dead by police after a history teacher was reportedly decapitated by an enraged parent in Paris this evening.  The shocking incident happened near a school in Conflans St Honorine, a suburb roughly 25 miles north of the French capital at roughly 5pm local time.  The unidentified killer then fled to the nearby town of Eragny-sur-Oise, around two miles away, where he refused to surrender.  Police shot the armed suspect multiple times, according to reports from the scene.  The attacker reportedly shouted 'Allahu Akbar' in the street before he was gunned down by officers.  The dead man was said to have been a school teacher who had enraged parents by displaying cartoons of the Prophet Mohammed to pupils, according to French media.  A source told Le Parisien: "The victim had recently given a lesson to his students on freedom of expression and had shown the caricatures of Muhammad."  This led to an enraged parent confronting the teacher with a kitchen knife, and then cutting his head off, said the source.  A police spokesman has confirmed the victim was a middle school teacher.  France's anti-terror prosecutor PNAT has opened an investigation into the horrific crime.  "The body of decapitated man was found at around 5.30 in the afternoon," said an investigating source.  "When police arrived, the person thought to be responsible was still present and threatened them with his weapons."  Witnesses watched the man decapitating his unnamed victim – who was also male – in broad daylight, and close to a school.  Officers rushed to the scene after the alarm was raising, and watched the killer running away, towards Eragny.  "He was waving a gun by this time and further threatened officers," said the source.  "This is when he was shot dead by police. Around ten shots were heard."  By 7pm local time, the scene of the suspected murder, and the scene where the killer was himself gunned down, had been sealed off.  Interior Minister Gerald Darmanin was ‘making his way to the scene of the attack,’ said a spokesman for his ministry, who also confirmed a terrorist investigation was underway.  In a tweet (in French), police urged members of the public to avoid the area.  It follows a terrorism enquiry being launched in Paris last month after two news agency staff were stabbed outside the former offices of Charlie Hebdo – the magazine where staff members were murdered in 2015 after publishing cartoons mocking the Prophet.  Those on trial range in age from 29 to 68, and are charged with providing logistics to the terrorists, including cash, weapons and vehicles. Paris's terror history  There have been a series of bomb, gun and knife attacks carried out by Islamic State and al-Qaeda operatives in France, dating back to early 2015.  The deadliest single terrorist attack ever in the country came in November 2015 when 130 people were killed in Paris.  Suicide bombers pledging allegiance to ISIS targeted the Stade de France, cafes, restaurants and the B

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