President Obama Announces Bin Laden is Dead

Update, May 2, 12:19 a.m: According to President Barack Obama in a televised speech Sunday night, a team of trained American military personnel found and killed Osama bin Laden Sunday at a compound in Pakistan.

This news comes just four months shy of the 10th anniversary of the Sept. 11 attacks.

bin Laden, 54, was the mastermind behind Al Qaeda's attack of the World Trade Center, the Pentagon and a plane crash in Pennsylvania on 9/11. 

"But his death doesn’t mark end of our efforts. We must and will remain vigilant at home and abroad," the President said in his speech.

In his brief speech, the President thanked the intelligence community – who secured leads on bin Laden's location in August. He also said that this fight was never about Islam.

“The U.S. is not – and never will be – at war with Islam … bin Laden was not a Muslim leader. He was a mass murderer of Muslims," Obama said. "Justice has been done."

Media outlets are reporting that bin Laden's identity was confirmed with the help of DNA from his deceased sister, who died in a Boston hopistal after losing a battle to cancer.

News reports will continue into Monday morning.

Original Post, May 1, 11:46 p.m.: Media outlets are reporting that Osama bin Laden has been killed.

A family in University Park — Charles S. Falkenberg, 45, his wife, Leslie A. Whittington, 45, and their two children Zoe Falkenberg, 8, and Dana Falkenberg, 3, were killed when their plane, American Flight 77, hit the Pentagon. 

Zoe was a student at University Park Elementary School.

Sheila M.S. Hein, 51, of University Park, was also killed on the same flight.

The town erected a memorial in their honor and in honor of the other lives lost on 9/11.

Sarah Nemeth contributed to this report.