Zülpich (dpa / lnw) - After the deadly shot from a police weapon at a suspected rioter, the police and public prosecutor's office in Bonn are investigating. The dead will be autopsied, said a spokesman for the public prosecutor's office on Tuesday. The clarification of the circumstances and the sequence of events the day before in the district of Euskirchen continued. It is an early stage of the investigation.
The 31-year-old man died Monday afternoon after being shot from a police gun. After the emergency call of a witness, the police drove to the village of Zülpich-Linzenich with two patrol car crews. The caller said the 31-year-old was trying to force his way into his parents' home.
According to current knowledge, the man is said to have attacked a 25-year-old police officer with a knife in the town west of Euskirchen. Your 35-year-old colleague is said to have fired a shot. The alarmed emergency doctor could no longer save the life of the 31-year-old. The two officers are currently off duty.
Prosecutors said witnesses would be questioned as the investigation continued. The police officer has not yet testified. 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.
On August 8, a 16-year-old youth from Senegal was shot dead by a police officer in Dortmund with his submachine gun. The fugitive is said to have approached the officials with a knife. In 2021, three people were killed and nine injured when shots were fired from the service weapons of North Rhine-Westphalian police officers. A year earlier there were four dead and eleven injured, according to the NRW Ministry of the Interior.
