Overview

• Officers in Düsseldorf opened fire on a 40-year-old who refused to drop a weapon on the Schadowstraße, leaving him seriously injured and hospitalized as investigators work to determine whether the firearm was real.
• Police in Bad Homburg are seeking a 28-year-old resident after a 31-year-old Afghan man was fatally stabbed in an asylum shelter, with Fahndungshinweise pointing to a possible flight toward Saarbrücken or France.
• Prosecutors in Paderborn secured remand custody for a 25-year-old on suspicion of attempted manslaughter and grievous bodily harm after a knife attack on a 27-year-old student, who remains in a life-threatening condition after surgery.
• Essen police arrested a 31-year-old and placed him in pretrial detention on suspicion of attempted murder for allegedly setting a fire beneath a sleeping homeless man at a bus stop; the victim escaped injury.
• Berlin prosecutors briefly closed stretches of the A100 and A113 to search for evidence in the mid-September Köpenick blackout case, deploying mantrailing dogs as the Generalstaatsanwaltschaft continues its investigation.