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Rescue workers at the scene: Eleven police officers are said to have been involved in the operation
Photo: Markus Wüllner / dpa
The police shot a 16-year-old from a youth welfare facility in Dortmund several times with a submachine gun on Monday.
Dortmund's chief public prosecutor, Carsten Dombert, said that an official was now being investigated on suspicion of bodily harm resulting in death.
The teenager died in hospital despite emergency surgery.
The shooter is said to be a police officer with comparatively few years of service, with the rank of police commissioner.
According to the public prosecutor's office, the police used tear gas and a taser against the teenager in addition to the firearm.
A total of eleven police officers - including many young people - were already on site when the shot was fired.
The youth Mohammed D. was hit by a total of five shots.
He was injured in the cheekbone, forearm, stomach and twice in the shoulder.
This was reported by senior public prosecutor Dombert, citing the preliminary autopsy result.
According to SPIEGEL information, the projectile in the stomach was deadly, a sixth shot missed Mohammed D.
Autopsy result early Tuesday afternoon
An arrow from the stun gun also hit the teenager.
Tasers have only been in use in North Rhine-Westphalia since 2021 in pilot regions - including Dortmund - and are intended to eliminate violent offenders without killing them.
A supervisor from the facility of the killed Mohammed D. had previously called the officials for help because he was walking with a knife in an inner courtyard between a church and the youth welfare facility.
In doing so, he appeared "threatening," as Chief Public Prosecutor Dombert said.
Dombert said it had to be determined whether the young person in Dortmund's Nordstadt had posed a threat to the supervisors or to himself.
For example, it is being investigated whether the young person could have been suicidal.
Did he want to be shot by the police?
A police spokesman had previously said the youth attacked officers with a knife.
According to initial findings, the teenager is an unaccompanied minor refugee from Senegal.
He had only been living in the youth welfare facility for a short time.
Three supervisors of the facility followed the police operation, they should be heard as witnesses in the course of the morning.
The police officer is also to be questioned on Tuesday, said Dombert.
As an accused, he also has the right to refuse to testify.
The police in Recklinghausen are responsible for the police investigations after the incident in Dortmund.
Editor's note: The article was supplemented by the public prosecutor's office after the preliminary autopsy results were announced. In this context, the number and location of the projectiles that hit the youngster were also corrected.
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