Unknown shooter fires at residential home in Euskirchen, police launch homicide probe

Late Sunday night, an unknown assailant discharged several rounds at a residential property on Roitzheimer Straße in Euskirchen, alerting a 53-year-old man and his 18-year-old son who were inside at the time. The father discovered bullet perforations in a window but neither occupant suffered injuries. A passerby described a person in dark clothing entering a black Kombi on Philipp-Reis-Straße and driving away in the direction of an OBI market.

The Bonn police's murder commission has taken charge of the case, treating it as an attempted killing, while the reasons behind the attack have not been clarified. Such firearm incidents are uncommon in smaller German towns, where crimes typically involve robbery, theft, knife attacks or assault, according to one outlet violence monitor.