Identified mass murderer in Hamburg
March 11, 2023Tweet
(RT) ⸻ Police in the German city of Hamburg have identified a gunman who shot seven people dead at a Jehovah's Witness center on Thursday night. The 35-year-old man, identified as Philipp Fusz, left the group around 18 months ago and may have had a score to settle with members of his former faith. Police received an anonymous tip about Fusz in January, but found no justification to confiscate his legally-owned pistol. Fusz approached the Jehovah's Witness Kingdom Hall during a service and fired at a woman in a car outside the building, then entered the building and fatally shot seven people, including an unborn baby whose mother survived the attack with serious injuries. Seven other people were injured.
Police officers arrived in less than ten minutes and pursued Fusz to the second floor of the building, where he turned his gun on himself and took his own life. Officers raided Fusz's apartment later on Thursday night and found 15 loaded pistol magazines and four additional boxes of ammunition. Hamburg Interior Minister Andy Grote described Thursday's shooting as "the worst crime in our city's recent history."
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