Stade Shooting Leaves 6 Dead at Youth Facility as Police Probe Custody Dispute
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Updated · DW (English) · Jun 30
Stade Shooting Leaves 6 Dead at Youth Facility as Police Probe Custody Dispute
3 articles · Updated · DW (English) · Jun 30
Summary
Six victims — four women and two men — remain unidentified after a shooting at a youth welfare facility in Stade, where all of the dead worked.
Police believe a custody dispute drove the attack: a 45-year-old man had an appointment there concerning his three-month-old daughter.
Four victims died at the scene, one during resuscitation efforts and another later in hospital; the child and her 34-year-old mother were not among the dead.
Authorities arrested the suspected gunman shortly after the attack and detained a 65-year-old woman suspected of driving the getaway vehicle.
Lower Saxony's interior minister called the killing an isolated, cold-blooded act about 30 kilometers west of Hamburg, while Chancellor Friedrich Merz said the events were profoundly shocking.