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Rampage in Heidelberg: Eyewitnesses report a dramatic encounter with the perpetrator

2022-01-26T04:57:44.125Z


Rampage in Heidelberg: Eyewitnesses report a dramatic encounter with the perpetrator Created: 2022-01-26Updated: 2022-01-26 05:42 By: Christina Denk There was a killing spree at the University of Heidelberg. A student died as a result. Two employees of the institute narrowly escaped the shooter. The ticker for what's happening. There was a killing spree at the University of Heidelberg on Monda


Rampage in Heidelberg: Eyewitnesses report a dramatic encounter with the perpetrator

Created: 2022-01-26Updated: 2022-01-26 05:42

By: Christina Denk

There was a killing spree at the University of Heidelberg.

A student died as a result.

Two employees of the institute narrowly escaped the shooter.

The ticker for what's happening.

  • There was a killing spree at the University of Heidelberg on Monday (January 24).

    The perpetrator is said to have been an 18-year-old student.

  • Three students were injured.

    Another 23-year-old student died.

    Two employees of the research center escaped only just

    (see first report from January 25, 7:15 p.m.).

  • This news ticker is continuously updated.

  • You can read a summary of what is known so far about the killing spree at Heidelberg University here.*

First report from January 25, 7:15 p.m .:

Heidelberg – On Monday afternoon (January 24), a man injured three people and killed a young woman in a rampage on the premises of Heidelberg University.

The 18-year-old biology student came into the lecture hall with a side-by-side shotgun and a repeating rifle.

He himself should have sat in the lecture hall, which, according to Jan Lohmann, director of the research center, was home to 30 freshmen.

The perpetrator shot several times, then fled and took his own life on the outside of the university, according to police reports*.

A 23-year-old student died as a result of a headshot, the three injured have since been released from the hospital.

Rampage in Heidelberg: 18-year-old shooter had previously announced the act in a WhatsApp message

According to previous knowledge, the act had no political or religious motives. The police did not rule out a targeted attack. According to the police, the alleged gunman from Heidelberg had more than 100 rounds of ammunition with him. It is not yet known why he stopped shooting, said the Mannheim police chief Siegfried Kollmar on Monday evening. Before the killing spree, the student had sent a WhatsApp message. At 12:32 p.m. on Monday, shortly after the first emergency calls were received by the police, the shooter's father called the police in Heidelberg and reported a WhatsApp message from his son announcing the crime. It said, according to the information, "that people now have to be punished."

On January 24th there was a killing spree at the University of Heidelberg.

The police were there shortly after the crime.

© Sebastian Gollnow/dpa

The native of Berlin, who lived alone in Mannheim, should not have had a criminal record according to initial findings.

How he got his hands on the guns is still being investigated.

The perpetrator had probably only recently bought them abroad.

A police investigation team called "Botanik" with 32 people is trying to clarify the background of the crime.

Rampage in Heidelberg: Two employees of the research center escaped the shooter

Two employees of the Heidelberg Research Center for Basic Biological Research (COS) may have narrowly escaped the gunman.

The director of the Center for Organismal Studies, Jan Lohmann, described on Tuesday what had happened to his colleagues the day before: They were coming down the stairs to the foyer of the building when they heard a gunshot, which they initially attributed to construction work in the house.

When they realized their mistake, they were only five or six meters away from the young man who had just emerged from the lecture hall.

The 18-year-old pointed the gun at the two men.

They escaped unharmed.

After the COS employees only heard shots in the distance, they dared to leave their offices to provide first aid in the lecture hall, Lohmann said.

They had previously warned each other via the Slack messaging service.

Protection against rampages is difficult, said Lohmann.

Admission checks at the beginning of a lecture or seminar could not prevent such a perpetrator - as happened in Heidelberg - from bursting into the middle of an event.

As a registered student, the 18-year-old would have had the usual access options.

If the perpetrator was already in the room, emergency plans could no longer work.

Here you can read the course of events again in detail in Monday's ticker.

One day after the killing spree at the University of Heidelberg, students lay candles and flowers.

© Uwe Anspach/dpa

After the killing spree: the police advise those affected to help - "They will not forget that for the rest of their lives"

After the killing spree at the university in Baden-Württemberg*, the German police union recommends those directly affected by the act to seek psychological care.

"The students in the lecture hall were scared to death, they didn't know how long the perpetrator would continue shooting," said Ralf Kusterer, head of state of the dpa.

He added, "They won't forget that for the rest of their lives."

Editor's Note:


In general, we do not report on suicides or suspected suicidal intent, in order not to encourage potential imitators.

Reporting only takes place if the circumstances receive special public attention.

If you or someone you know is suffering from an existential life crisis or depression, please contact the telephone counseling service on: 0800-1110111.

The Psychiatric Crisis Service for Munich and Upper Bavaria also offers help on 0180-6553000.

Further information can be found on the website www.kundendienst-psychiatrie.de.

(chd/dpa) *Merkur.de is an offer from IPPEN.MEDIA.

Source: merkur

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