Hamburg again, shots again – two dead are on the sidewalk

Two men were killed by gunfire in the Langenhorn district of Hamburg late on Saturday evening. According to the current state of investigation, it looks as if one man killed the other with several shots. After that, the alleged shooter apparently shot himself, said a spokeswoman for the public prosecutor's office on Sunday.

Further details of the fact were not yet known. The investigations continued. According to initial information, the crime happened on Reeborn Street, where there is a new housing estate. The police were called here on Saturday evening, they came in large numbers and armed with submachine guns and found two men on the footpath in front of the entrance to an apartment building. As can be heard, one of the men was already dead from a shot in the head when the officers arrived, the other still showed signs of life, but died a little later on the spot.

As various Hamburg media reports, there are said to have been connections between the men in the rocker milieu and here with the “Hells Angels” group, which is banned in Hamburg. The clothing also indicated this, writes the “Hamburger Morgenpost”. The investigation should now reveal whether it was a personal dispute or perhaps the collection of debts – and it was not easy to do on site at first, because a group of men were disrupting the work, they wanted to go to the man who was shot man they called their friend. According to a spokeswoman for the prosecutor, it can be assumed that one of the dead is the shooter who had previously struck down the other man.

Most recently, the killing spree with eight dead in a community center of Jehovah's Witnesses not only caused a discussion about privately owned firearms in Hamburg. On Saturday evening, the victims were commemorated in the Alsterdorf sports hall.