Overview
- Hospital staff called police around 16:00 reporting a patient threatening personnel with a scissors.
- Multiple patrols responded to the university hospital before the encounter turned fatal.
- According to the current investigative account, the man attacked officers with the scissors.
- Police fired their weapons and the 33-year-old died at the scene, with authorities noting he was in a psychiatric crisis.
- The Gießen prosecutor’s office seized the body and ordered an autopsy, and the Hesse State Criminal Police Office is assisting the ongoing investigation.