Police say 21-year old Abdul Ballout ran towards them with a bladed weapon
German police said Sunday they had shot and killed the chief suspect in what officials described as a deadly Islamist attack near the Berlin Pride parade the previous night.
The attack late Saturday – the first such incident to target the German capital’s LGBTQ community – killed one woman and wounded 29 others.
Berlin police said on X that they had traced the chief suspect, 21-year old Abdul Ballout, to an allotment complex in the western Spandau district at around 6:00 pm on Sunday.
Ballout “ran towards them with a bladed weapon”, the police said, prompting officers to open fire, “injuring the suspect so that he died at the scene despite attempts to rescusitate him”.
