A women and her adult son were killed, and two police officers have been seriously injured, after police were called out to a domestic violence incident in Kirchheim, in the western German state of Rhineland-Palatinate.
A German tourist shot on a highway in western Canada while driving with his family is flying home Tuesday for treatment of his brain injury, a consular official said.
In an intercity train travelling north to Flensburg on Wednesday evening, a man stabbed another passenger with a knife. A police officer who opened fire to take down the assailant was also hurt in the incident.
A former "Mr Germany" suspected of belonging to the loosely-organized far-right "Reichsbürger" movement
appeared in court in eastern city Halle on Monday, facing charges of attempted murder after a gunfight with police officers.
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After a gun enthusiast shot and killed a special forces police officer at the door to his house last year, the radical Reichsbürger movement came to national attention. The murder trial started on Tuesday.
A 32-year-old man on Monday confessed to selling the gun and bullets used by a teenager to kill nine people in a shooting spree at a Munich mall last year.
A gunman opened fire at a packed nightclub in southern Germany early Sunday, killing one and wounding four before being shot by police, authorities said, in an attack likely motivated by a personal feud.
A neo-Nazi best known for spending 15 months in jail for attacking a leading Green party politician is again in trouble, after shooting several squirrels in his garden, Bild reports.
In the small Ruhr Valley town of Oer-Erkenschwick, a fight between rival gangs turned violent, escalating in one man shooting two people. Now police are searching for the shooter, who they warn may be armed.
Authorities in Munich arrested a suspect after shots were fired at the Unterföhring metro station on Tuesday morning. A police officer was shot in the head and is in a life-threatening situation.
One of the police officers shot by a self-declared "Reichsbürger" extremist on Wednesday has since died due to his injuries, Bavarian officials confirmed on Thursday morning.
Berlin police on Tuesday night shot and killed the father of a young girl at a refugee home as he tried to attack a man who allegedly sexually abused his daughter.
A special police team has arrested the man believed to have sold a gun via the darknet to the teenager who shot and killed nine people at a shopping centre in Munich in July, local media report.
Munich paid tribute to nine victims of a shooting rampage on Sunday, with Chancellor Angela Merkel and President Joachim Gauck attending the memorials that called on people to resist slipping into fear and hatred.
A 15-year-old was arrested in Baden-Württemberg on Tuesday on suspicion of planning to carry out an attack on his school, police announced on Wednesday evening.
According to research by the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung the Munich gunman was proud to have been born on the same day as Hitler and hated Turks and Arabs.
Social networks were both a curse and a blessing in the deadly shopping mall shooting in Munich, as police sometimes found themselves chasing fictitious leads and false alarms.
