Hagen: Shooting at a recycling center – one dead and two injured

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Large police presence
One dead and two injured after a shooting at a recycling center in Hagen

Police and rescue workers were called to a recycling center in Hagen in the early afternoon

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There was apparently a shooting at a recycling center in Hagen, North Rhine-Westphalia. The suspected perpetrator, a 77-year-old, was caught, according to police.

In A 54-year-old man was killed in shots fired at a recycling center in Hagen on Friday. Two other men were critically injured, a police spokesman said. The alleged perpetrator is a 77-year-old. The emergency services were able to arrest the man shortly after the bloody crime in the Lennetal district, the spokesman said in response to a DPA request. “Bild” had previously reported on the shooting in South Westphalia.

According to initial findings, the 77-year-old fired the shots in a building on the recycling center site. The spokesman said that nothing could yet be said about the exact course of events and the motive. The two critically injured people are a 48-year-old and a 23-year-old. Rescue helicopters were requested for both.

Shots at recycling center in Hagen

According to the spokesman, the police came to the crime scene with a large contingent. According to a statement from the police and the Hagen public prosecutor’s office, the emergency services were called to the industrial area at around 2:45 p.m. A large area was cordoned off there. It said there was no further danger to the population. A Hagen police homicide commission began investigating the motive and the further background.

Note: This article has been updated several times.

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