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Bosonic

(3,746 posts) Fri Jul 10, 2015, 06:10 AM Jul 2015

Two dead in German shooting spree, suspect arrested

Last edited Fri Jul 10, 2015, 06:56 AM - Edit history (1)

Source: AFP

Berlin (AFP) - A gunman killed a woman and a cyclist from a moving car in southern Germany on Friday, before police said they had arrested a suspect blamed for the shooting spree.

The shooter, travelling in a silver convertible, also fired at or threatened at least two other people, but they were not injured, police said.

The shootings took place in Leutershausen-Tiefenthal near the city of Ansbach in southern Bavarian state.

Read more: http://news.yahoo.com/two-dead-german-killing-spree-suspect-large-101321407.html

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Two dead in German shooting spree, suspect arrested (Original Post) Bosonic Jul 2015 OP

Article updated: they got him. DetlefK Jul 2015 #1

Captured by gas station employees muriel_volestrangler Jul 2015 #2

DetlefK

(16,423 posts)

1. Article updated: they got him.

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Fri Jul 10, 2015, 06:25 AM

Jul 2015

muriel_volestrangler

(101,321 posts)

2. Captured by gas station employees

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Fri Jul 10, 2015, 09:53 AM

Jul 2015

The suspect pulled into a gas station in a nearby village and ran inside its convenience store waving a gun, the news site reported. Employees subdued the suspect, bound him up with cable fixers and waited for police to arrive.

http://edition.cnn.com/2015/07/10/europe/germany-shooting/

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