A gunman killed six people as well as an unborn child at a Jehovah's Witnesses center in Hamburg, Germany, before turning the gun on himself as police stormed the building. Eight people were wounded, four of them seriously.
Germany was in shock on Friday after a gunman killed six people as well as an unborn child at a Jehovah’s Witnesses center in Hamburg, before turning the gun on himself as police stormed the building. The attacker, a 35-year old German national, was a former member of the Jehovah Witnesses community, according to Hamburg’s state prosecutor. German police are still searching for a possible motive after the shooter opened fire on an event attended by 50 people on Thursday evening.
And I wondered, ‘who is still working with the jackhammer now?’ That was my first idea because you don’t hear any gunshots [around here].” Another neighbor told RTL: “We were not at home at all. Our son called us that there had been a shooting across the street at the Jehovah’s Witnesses and he had even filmed parts of it, thinking it was a scare gun.” Messages of sympathy Chancellor Scholz led politicians in denouncing the murder spree in the northern German city.
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