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Tuesday, 25 January 2022 (YJC)_ German police say a gunman fired two shots at a university, killing and wounding several people.
An 18-year-old biology student opened fire on a lecture hall at the University of Heidelberg in Germany on Monday, German officials said.
Mannheim City Police Chief Siegfried Colmar said:
The gunman was found with 100 extra bullets in his backpack, and it is not clear why he stopped firing, but officers were confident he was acting alone.
According to Reuters, another student was killed and three others were injured, and the assailant then shot himself.
A state prosecutor told the same news conference that police had searched his home in Mannheim in southwestern Germany, but it was too early to determine the motive.
Colmar said the shooter had purchased two weapons, including a double-barreled shotgun, but did not have a license.
According to Reuters, the German police official confirmed that the assailant was a student:
The suspect did not have a driver's license. The suspect was not licensed to carry a weapon. This makes him a very unusual case.
The Mannheim city prosecutor also says that the suspect has no previous criminal record in Germany.
Baden-Württemberg Interior Minister Thomas Stroebel told a news conference that one of the four German students injured in the attack, which took place around noon, was a 23-year-old woman who died of her injuries.
Stobel said three other people were slightly injured.
The Mannheim police chief explained that 29 witnesses told officers in the lecture hall that "only one person came in, shot and left and no one else was seen."
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