GERMANY: 3 GERMAN POLICE OFFICERS SHOT DEAD AND ONE OTHER OFFICER WOUNDED BY GUNMAN IN DORTMUND

Record ID: 230338

  • Title: GERMANY: 3 GERMAN POLICE OFFICERS SHOT DEAD AND ONE OTHER OFFICER WOUNDED BY GUNMAN IN DORTMUND
  • Date: 14th June 2000
  • Summary: DORTMUND, GERMANY (JUNE 14, 2000) (REUTERS) 1. MV POLICE STANDING ON STREET 0.10 2. SLV POLICE CORDON 0.16 3. SLV STREET SIGN READING "UNTERER GRAFFWEG" 0.20 4. SLV CRIME SCENE CORDONED OFF 0.28 5. SLV REPORTERS WAITING 0.34 6. SLV AMBULANCE/TROLLEY WITH BLANKET NEXT TO AMBULANCE 0.52 WALTROP, GERMANY (JUNE 14, 2000) (REUTERS) 7. SLV BLOOD ON GROUND ON STREET WHERE MAN WAS PULLED OVER FOR NOT WEARING SEATBELT 1.04 8. SLV POLICE VAN AT SCENE 1.09 9. SLV PEOPLE ON CORNER 1.23 10. LV POLICEMAN AT SCENE 1.30 11. SLV BLOODIED BLANKET/ POLICE/ CORDON (3 SHOTS) 1.48 12. SLV POLICE CYCLIST OUTSIDE CORDON 1.54 13. LV POLICE VEHICLES AT SCENE 2.04 14. SV EVIDENCE/ FORENSIC INVESTIGATORS IN WHITE OVERALLS AT SCENE 2.11 15. MV FORENSIC INVESTIGATOR FILMING SCENE 2.18 16. ZOOM CRIME SCENE 2.24 Initials Script is copyright Reuters Limited. All rights reserved
  • Embargoed: 29th June 2000 13:00
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  • Location: DORTMUND AND WALTROP, GERMANY
  • Country: Germany
  • Reuters ID: LVA7WS99VPZSMU4WHETYAVLTV8B8
  • Story Text: Three German police officers have been shot dead and
    one other officer wounded by a gunman in two separate
    shootings in the western town of Dortmund.



    A police spokesman said that a motorist in a BMW
    was stopped by authorities in a routine traffic inspection on
    Wednesday (June 14) because he was not wearing his seat belt.

    Police said that the motorist then shot at two police
    officers, killing a 35-year-old man and injuring his
    25-year-old colleague. The assailant then fled in his car.

    Police said they believe the same motorist then shot and
    seriously wounded two more police officers several kilometres
    (miles) away from the scene of the first shooting. They died
    later in hospital.

    Police identified the suspect as a 31-year-old resident of
    Dortmund, who had had his drivers licence revoked in 1999. He
    was driving a silver BMW 325 car.

    awa/jrc



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