BERLIN (AP) — Police say a man has been shot dead after entering a movie theater in southwestern Germany, apparently with a weapon. They say they believe that no one else was injured in the incident.
Police spokesman Bernd Hochstaedter said authorities were told early Thursday afternoon that an armed man had entered the Kinopolis movie theater in the town of Viernheim and that shots apparently had been fired.
Hesse’s interior minister, Peter Beuth, said it wasn’t clear whether the weapon was real.
Hochstaedter said that the police deployment lasted around three hours.
He said: “We believe that there were no injured people, and that the people who were in the cinema with the perpetrator could be freed uninjured.”
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CNN reports the shooter is dead.
Edit – All sorts of links:
http://www.wgal.com/national/shooting-at-german-cinema-leaves-25-wounded/40189930
http://www.skynews.com.au/news/top-stories/2016/06/24/man-opens-fire-in-german-cinema--report.html
Has Trump blamed this on Hillary,and Obama yet.
Wow. MSNBC saying nobody was actually injured. The gunman entered the theater, let off some rounds into the air, and barricaded himself in.
The German equivalent of SWAT showed up and took him out.
Probably, but what they’ll really use it for is to say gun control couldn’t stop this.
Yeah, he did yesterday.