Rampage in Heidelberg: This is known so far - the motive of the perpetrator is completely unclear
Created: 01/25/2022, 2:30 p.m
Rampage in Heidelberg: A man opened fire in a university lecture hall.
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The University of Heidelberg became the scene of a killing spree: A man opened fire in a lecture hall.
There is one fatality and three injured - what is known so far.
Update from January 25, 6:06 a.m
.: A 23-year-old student is dead, three other fellow students injured.
A 19- and 20-year-old woman and a 20-year-old man were slightly injured by the shots.
The act shocked.
Both the city and the university itself are planning funeral services.
The churches and victim protection organizations such as the White Ring have offered help that the injured, relatives and witnesses of the crime can turn to.
One day after the killing spree at Heidelberg University, questions are still unanswered.
According to current knowledge, the investigators assume that the 18-year-old perpetrator shot several times in a lecture hall and later directed himself in front of the building.
Around 30 students sat in the lecture hall.
According to the police, the man had just sent a Whatsapp message to his father.
He wrote "that people now have to be punished," said Kollmar.
Details still need to be verified.
"We will now examine his surroundings in the next few days, with high pressure."
How did the perpetrator get the guns?
The 18-year-old is said to have bought it abroad a few days ago, as the Mannheim police chief Siegfried Kollmar said on Monday evening.
The man had more than 100 rounds of ammunition in a backpack with him, in addition to the purchase receipts for two guns.
So he could have reloaded and kept shooting, police chief Kollmar made clear.
Rampage in Heidelberg: This is known so far - the motive of the perpetrator is completely unclear
First report from January 24, 2022
A terrible act in Heidelberg: during a killing spree in a lecture hall at Heidelberg University, a man shot one person and injured three others. As the German Press Agency learned from security circles, a victim died from his severe gunshot wounds a few hours after the crime. The perpetrator is also dead - but his motive remains unclear for the time being.
According to the police, a lone perpetrator shot himself with a gun in a lecture hall while the lecture was in progress on Monday afternoon.
He injured four people.
He then fled outside.
The police initially did not provide any information on the identity of the victim and the perpetrator.
However, the
dpa
learned from security circles
that the fatality is said to be a young woman who was shot in the head by the perpetrator.
According to
dpa
, the man is said to have shot himself.
According to initial findings, the man himself was a student.
He is said to have had no political or religious motives.
Shortly after the crime, the police said at noon that they were not assuming there were any other perpetrators, but were searching the area to be on the safe side.
The police assume that the perpetrator was a lone wolf – “there is no longer a danger”
The police then confirmed at around 3:15 p.m. that the man was a lone perpetrator.
"There is currently no longer any danger," it said.
The Neuenheimer Feld in front of the gates of Heidelberg's old town was cordoned off in the afternoon.
The police asked motorists to drive around the site so that rescue workers could drive freely.
The police set up a hotline for relatives.
Baden-Württemberg's Science Minister Theresia Bauer (Greens) was on her way to the crime scene in the afternoon.
As a spokeswoman said, she first met with university rector Bernhard Eitel and now wanted to get an idea for herself.
What motive drove the perpetrator to his act remains unclear at first.
In our ticker you can find out the latest developments in the Heidelberg case.
(cg with dpa)