Bosnian TV identified the shooter as Mevlid Jasarevic. A member of the Islamic fundamentalist Wahhabi sect from Novi Pazar, Serbia.
Sarajevo Mayor Alija Behmen said the gunman "got off a tram with a Kalashnikov and started shooting at the American Embassy." Witnesses told Bosnian television that the man urged pedestrians to move away, saying he was targeting only the embassy.
One police officer guarding the building was wounded before police surrounded the gunman. After a 30-minute standoff, the sound of a single shot echoed and video showed the shooter slump to the ground.
