Overview
- Police report that at least ten shots were fired at about 14:38 near the Kö-Bogen tunnel, hitting the taxi’s front-seat passenger, who was hospitalized in serious condition.
- A large deployment with dozens of officers and a helicopter secured the scene as the homicide unit and the public prosecutor assumed the investigation.
- Roads around Kaiserstraße stayed closed into the evening, and Rheinbahn lines 701, 705 and 706 faced major disruptions and delays.
- Eyewitnesses described assailants exiting a rental or Uber vehicle and opening fire before fleeing, a detail police declined to confirm or deny.
- The incident recalls a March shooting in Düsseldorf involving a hired vehicle, after which the perpetrator was convicted and sentenced to 12 years for manslaughter.