6 Slain in Germany at Family Gathering
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SALZGITTER, Germany — A 24-year-old man went on a shooting spree at a family gathering for Ramadan, killing six relatives and critically injuring his mother before turning himself in, German police said.
The suspect was confined to a psychiatric clinic Saturday, prosecutor’s spokesman Eckehard Niestroj said. The man confessed at a hearing Saturday but could “not name any plausible, understandable motive,” Niestroj said.
The victims suffered seven “shots in the head area in quick succession,” Niestroj said. Children were in an adjacent room during the incident at the apartment of the suspect’s parents, police said.
Those slain were the suspect’s wife, 24; his sister, 32, and her husband, 31; the suspect’s two brothers, 32 and 26; and a sister-in-law, 24.
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