According to police reports, several people were shot dead in a church of Jehovah's Witnesses in the north of Hamburg on Thursday evening. Other people were seriously injured in the attack in the Groß Borstel district.

According to the police, an event was taking place in the three-story building of Jehovah's Witnesses at the time of the crime. According to the Hamburg interior authorities, the shots were fired around 9 p.m. Police forces were nearby, were at the scene of the crime a few minutes later and then "penetrated the object very quickly".