Crime Prevention Research Center

On February 19, 2020 at about 10 PM, at a town near Frankfurt, Germany, a man fatally shot nine people at two hookah lounges.

A gunman killed nine people in two apparently racially motivated shootings at [two] shisha bars in the German town of Hanau, police said. The suspect then killed himself, according to officers, after also killing his mother at his home.

Here is our research on mass public shootings occurring around the world. A video on our research is available here.

International Comparisons, mass public shootings

By johnrlott

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