Shots in front of a supermarket in Baden-Württemberg: Two dead - the police give the first details
Created: 02/17/2022, 11:00 am
By: Richard Strobl
Police officers and firefighters are at a supermarket.
Two people died from gunshots there.
It is a man and a woman, the man may have been the perpetrator, said a spokesman for the Reutlingen police headquarters.
The incident happened around 7:30 p.m. on Wednesday.
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Shots were fired in front of a supermarket in Baden-Württemberg.
Two people have died.
Stuttgart - shots in Baden-Württemberg*!
In Kirchheim unter Teck in the Esslingen district near Stuttgart, two people were killed by gunfire on Wednesday evening.
The police headquarters in Reutlingen has now confirmed this to the dpa.
Shots in front of a supermarket in Baden-Württemberg
The shots were fired around 7:30 p.m. at the Nanz Center in Kirchheim unter Teck.
Two people died as a result.
According to police information, the dead are a man and a woman, the man may have been the perpetrator, said a spokesman for the Reutlingen police headquarters.
Other people were not injured.
According to SWR, the crime is said to have occurred in the parking lot of a shopping center in the immediate vicinity of the entrance to an organic market. * According to this, the man was the perpetrator.
He is said to have judged himself.
The woman is said to have been an “elderly” person.
To what extent the two knew each other is not yet known.
There is also no information available on a possible motive.
He may have shot himself after the fact.
"However, we can almost rule out an extended suicide," the
Esslinger Zeitung
quoted a police spokesman as saying.
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