Four people have been injured in a shooting near a court holding a trial over the death of a former boxer in the western German city of Bielefeld, police sources told dpa on Wednesday.
The incident was a targeted attack on people related to the trial, the sources said, with three shots fired. Previous reports spoke of two people injured, one of whom critically. Two suspects were detained at the scene, but their involvement has not yet been clarified, the police said on Wednesday evening, adding that a third person with unclear involvement in the crime was still at large.
The police said armed officers had searched a building near the crime scene during the afternoon but found nothing. A possible weapon has also not yet been found. Police had earlier cordoned off a wide area around the Bielefeld Regional Court and told people in a post on X to "avoid the area. According to a court spokesman, the shots were fired shortly after the end of a hearing at a high-security trial over the death of Besar Nimani, a former professional boxer. Police said the first emergency calls were received from passers-by at around pm GMT.
Nimani was killed in Bielefeld in March after being ambushed by two men, according to the Bielefeld public prosecutor's office. The men allegedly fired 16 shots at Nimani, killing him at the scene. A year-old man is currently on trial charged with murder, while another suspect is still on the run. A motive has not yet been determined. Officers from a police task force have secured the building every day, with visitors, co-plaintiffs and media representatives being searched before entering the courtroom.
Police said that an investigation into Wednesday's shooting is "in full swing. More than two years after a quadruple homicide devastated Moscow, Idaho, a judge unsealed the transcript of a recent hearing in the case against Bryan Kohberger β the man accused of stabbing four students to death in an off-campus home. A Georgia sheriff's deputy won't face criminal charges for fatally shooting a Black man during a traffic stop that spiraled into a violent struggle, the district attorney who examined body-camera video and other evidence in the killing said Tuesday.
