Cops surround suspect in France shootings Updated 2:05 a.m. (CBS/AP) TOULOUSE, France - French police officers raided a house in the southern city of Toulouse early Wednesday morning, cornering a suspect in the killing three Jewish schoolchildren, a rabbi and three paratroopers in three separate attacks. Interior Minister Claude Gueant, speaking at the scene, said the suspect was "talking a lot about his involvement in the jihadist cause," claiming to be a member of the al Qaeda terror network who wanted to "avenge Palestinian children." CBS Radio News correspondent Elaine Cobbe reports the suspect is believed to be a French national of Algerian origin. The house is surrounded by police vans and helmeted officers. Gueant said the suspect was refusing to surrender. Two police officers were left with minor injuries during the raid, when the suspect fired shots through the door of his home. Police seemed to draw back and surround the home after the initial raid, and there were reports in the local media that they were preparing for a second attempt. Authorities have been conducting a massive manhunt across a swath of southern France after Monday's shootings at a Jewish school in Toulouse, and two attacks on paratroopers in Toulouse and a nearby city last week. The same weapon was used in all three attacks. A French prosecutor told Sky News that a second man, the brother of the suspect cornered in the house in Toulouse, was arrested earlier Wednesday morning or late on Tuesday night. According to Gueant, he was also suspected of murder, raising the possibility that the brothers were both directly involved in the recent shootings. Gueant said the mother of the suspect in the Toulouse home was called on to try to reason with her son but she told police she didn't want to because she, "has hardly any influence over him." The suspect or suspects were believed to have been known to local anti-terror police, with local media reports that the man holed-up in the house had previously traveled to the border area between Afghanistan and Pakistan, where al Qaeda is known to operate training camps. Police spread out across southern France in the hundreds Tuesday, hunting for someone they initially believed to be an expert gunman with possible neo-Nazi ties or grudges against minorities. The manhunt took place as friends and family tearfully mourned four people slain at close range Monday at a Jewish school in the city of Toulouse -- a rabbi, his two young sons and a young girl.