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Wild shoot-out in Hamburg: two killed, four injured
Iranian kills his girlfriend and himself after police chase - reason unclear - wounded officers are in stable condition
by André Zand-Vakili
Hamburg - A man and a woman were killed and four police officers were seriously wounded in a gunfight in Hamburg last sunday night. The suspect, a 37 year-old bouncer, shot his 30 year-old girlfriend and then killed himself. The situation started when a vehicle stop after a suspected license plate theft got out of control. First it looked like a routine situation for the police. Several officers stopped a car with four persons in Hamburg-Dulsberg, a neighbourhood which is known as a high-crime area. A citizen had alerted the police that three men and a woman had removed license plates from a parking car. When the police stopped and questioned the suspects, they found that the 37 year-old Syamak Z. had indeed replaced the old, invalid license plates on his car with new ones. Because he couldn't reasonably explain the situation the officers decided to take him to the station. "At this point the woman stepped between the suspect and the officers," Captain Karina Sadowsky explains. A fight ensued, during which Syamak Z drew a 9mm handgun from a concealed holster and fired at a plain-clothes officer. The officer was hit in the stomach and went down. In the following firefight another officer was hit in the stomach and a third received two grazing shots. A female officer was also hit but the bullet bounced off her holster.
Syamak Z. and his girlfriend Peggy Sch. fled on foot through the populated neighbourhood, shooting in all directions. He reloaded his gun several times. Numerous bullets passed through windows in the adjoining houses. One projectile hit a wall just above a cradle. Several cars were also hit. The police eventually managed to corner the suspect. Officers witnessed how the shooter exchanged some words with his girlfriend. Then he put his gun to her head and pulled the trigger. Peggy Sch. died on the spot. The Iranian citizen (who also wore a ballistic vest and carried a knife) then committed suicide by shooting himself in the head.
It is still unclear why the suspect went on a shooting spree. Having only been arrested for shop-lifting and assault before, the 37 year-old had not been known as a hardened criminal. The police did not confirm rumours that the young woman suffered from cancer and that she and her boyfriend had seen no other way out. The four wounded officers are in stable conditions by now.
Wild shoot-out in Hamburg: two killed, four injured
Iranian kills his girlfriend and himself after police chase - reason unclear - wounded officers are in stable condition
by André Zand-Vakili
Hamburg - A man and a woman were killed and four police officers were seriously wounded in a gunfight in Hamburg last sunday night. The suspect, a 37 year-old bouncer, shot his 30 year-old girlfriend and then killed himself. The situation started when a vehicle stop after a suspected license plate theft got out of control. First it looked like a routine situation for the police. Several officers stopped a car with four persons in Hamburg-Dulsberg, a neighbourhood which is known as a high-crime area. A citizen had alerted the police that three men and a woman had removed license plates from a parking car. When the police stopped and questioned the suspects, they found that the 37 year-old Syamak Z. had indeed replaced the old, invalid license plates on his car with new ones. Because he couldn't reasonably explain the situation the officers decided to take him to the station. "At this point the woman stepped between the suspect and the officers," Captain Karina Sadowsky explains. A fight ensued, during which Syamak Z drew a 9mm handgun from a concealed holster and fired at a plain-clothes officer. The officer was hit in the stomach and went down. In the following firefight another officer was hit in the stomach and a third received two grazing shots. A female officer was also hit but the bullet bounced off her holster.
Syamak Z. and his girlfriend Peggy Sch. fled on foot through the populated neighbourhood, shooting in all directions. He reloaded his gun several times. Numerous bullets passed through windows in the adjoining houses. One projectile hit a wall just above a cradle. Several cars were also hit. The police eventually managed to corner the suspect. Officers witnessed how the shooter exchanged some words with his girlfriend. Then he put his gun to her head and pulled the trigger. Peggy Sch. died on the spot. The Iranian citizen (who also wore a ballistic vest and carried a knife) then committed suicide by shooting himself in the head.
It is still unclear why the suspect went on a shooting spree. Having only been arrested for shop-lifting and assault before, the 37 year-old had not been known as a hardened criminal. The police did not confirm rumours that the young woman suffered from cancer and that she and her boyfriend had seen no other way out. The four wounded officers are in stable conditions by now.
