Police in Dresden, eastern Germany, have established that the situation is no longer perilous, as the two hostages, a youngster, and a store employee, are unharmed.
Police say an armed suspect who allegedly murdered his mother in Dresden before taking two hostages has been shot dead.
After barricading himself in a shopping mall with a nine-year-old youngster and a 38-year-old store employee, officers originally communicated with a 40-year-old German, they claimed.
Saturday at noon, three hundred officers, including special forces, responded to the conclusion of the hostage situation.
The unidentified individual was slain during a standoff with the police.
“The forty-year-old sustained mortal injuries during the attack and captive release. The particular circumstances are the focus of ongoing investigations “The police in Dresden, the capital of the German state of Saxony, posted on Twitter.
The suspect is suspected of killing his 62-year-old mother, whose body was discovered in another section of Dresden early on Saturday morning, before traveling to the city center.
At approximately 8.30 a.m. local time, he entered a building on Ammonstrasse and fired rounds at the radio station’s entrance.
The nine-year-old, believed to be a friend’s child, was present, according to Saxony Police.
A member of Radio Dresden’s staff said that an armed man had entered the broadcaster’s office building, the Ammonhof, and fired multiple bullets.
The suspect then drove with the child to the Altmarkt-Galerie shopping center before taking the employee hostage and barricading them in an office.
Shortly after 11.30 a.m., he called the police, who confirmed they were in contact with him and had a negotiating team on the scene.
During the hostage rescue operation, the shopping center was evacuated and the Striezelmarkt Christmas market in Dresden was closed.
The suspect had a mental illness
After hearing gunfire during the standoff, police entered the office by breaking through a door.
During the encounter, the captives were “apparently unharmed,” according to the authorities.
According to prior investigations, the suspect was mentally ill, as stated by police spokesman Thomas Geithner.
Saturday, police separately verified that his mother, 62, was discovered deceased in an apartment building in the Prohlis neighborhood of the city.
Investigators thwarted a far-right plot to overthrow the German government and install an aristocrat as the leader of a new state earlier this week, which has switched the attention in Germany to security in recent days.
