A 41-year-old divorced German woman shot her ex-husband twice in the head when he arrived to pick up their son, killing him instantly, then bludgeoned her 5-year-old son unconscious before suffocating him with a plastic bag. After the act of family annihilation, the woman went to a hospital to go on a killing spree. After wounding two pedestrians with gunfire, she entered the hospital and pointed her gun at a woman at the front desk, but did not kill her. Then she proceeded to the gynecological ward, stabbing a male nurse in the chest and shooting him multiple times in the head, leaving the 56-year-old father of three dead at the scene.
The woman at the desk had contacted police, so they were on the scene very quickly, and a shootout ensued in which one policeman was shot in the knee and the lawyer was pierced by 17 bullets, ending her life. The dead attacker was found to have taken some 300 rounds with her, which suggests that she planned on killing as many people as possible.
Although it is not clear exactly what the woman’s intent was, the attack appears to be an act of anti-male terrorism. Hopefully, German readers can fill us in on some of the details concerning the attacker and her motives.
