27-year-old shot dead in Tuttlingen town hall
Police officers fatally shoot armed man in courtyard of Tuttlingen town hall. Motive and precise circumstances currently under investigation.
Police operation in Tuttlingen ends fatally
According to zeit.de, police officers in Tuttlingen fatally shot a 27-year-old man who was armed with a pistol. The man had attracted attention while carrying a weapon in the area of the town hall and was eventually discovered in the courtyard of the building, where he was sitting with his weapon. According to the state criminal police office, he opened fire on the arriving officers, whereupon they made use of their firearms. The man was hit and died despite resuscitation attempts before being removed from the scene. Police officers were not injured.
The deceased was an Afghan national residing in Tuttlingen who had previously come to the attention of police. The state criminal police office stated that the exact reason for his previous entries would not be disclosed at this time.
A focus of the ongoing investigation is the man's motive – it remains unclear why he came to the town hall armed. Investigators must also reconstruct the entire sequence of events and question witnesses. In August 2026, police officers in Weinheim shot a man armed with a spade; he was taken to hospital with life-threatening injuries. In the past year, there were 14 operations statewide in which officers directly used their service weapons against people – seven people died in these incidents.
Source: Google News DE — Crime (de)