Zülpich (dpa / lnw) - The suspected rioter killed by a police shot in Zülpich on Monday is said to have previously put a police officer in a headlock and threatened him with a knife. The 25-year-old policewoman also stated that the man held the knife to her neck, a spokesman for the Bonn public prosecutor said on Wednesday. A 35-year-old police officer then shot the attacker. The 31-year-old died from a shot in the head. The prosecutor said the autopsy revealed that. Only one shot was fired. The 31-year-old died on the spot.
The police were called to the Linzenich district of Zülpich on Monday by an emergency call because the 31-year-old was trying to force his way into his parents' house. According to the Bonn police, the caller was the man's mother. For reasons of neutrality, the police in Bonn and not in Euskirchen, where the fatal shot was fired, are investigating.
The dead man was apparently known to the police in connection with petty crime. His partially demolished car with a broken windshield was parked in front of the house. According to the NRW Ministry of the Interior, five people were killed this year when shots were fired from the service weapons of North Rhine-Westphalian police officers.
