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On Sunday, the police shot a 15-year-old suspect of a robbery in Capelle aan den IJssel. The mayor Joost Manusama reports this an explanation on the website of the municipality.
The shooting incident took place at a Fast food chain McDonald’s location, after a fat bike was stolen in a robbery in the neighborhood, says a spokesperson for the Rotterdam police unit. In addition, the suspect would have threatened with a firearm. Bystanders have reported this to the police.
When the police arrived, the suspect fled to the McDonald’s. According to the police, he again showed a firearm at the restaurant. The agents then used the approach technique for dangerous persons, drawing their gun and the suspect questions to stand and drop the weapon.
Very often warned
The suspect is “warned very often,” says a police spokesperson Opposite the NOS. “We said to him:” You have been arrested, we are the police. Stay, drop the weapon. “In the end he did not listen, is [hij] we started running and we shot ”. The police reported on Sunday evening to have found a firearm with the suspect’s body.
The identity of the suspect is not yet known. It is also not yet known how the victim of the robbery is doing. For the robbery, the police also arrested a second suspect.
Visitors and employees of the McDonald’s who witnessed the shooting were offered victim assistance. In return for It Ad said an employee of the fast food restaurant that she saw the boys coming on a fatbike: “Suddenly one of them pulled out a gun. He was half a meter away from me. Then I thought: Shit, I have to go inside.”
A few times a year
The National Criminal Investigate is investigating the shooting, as is usual after the police have shot a suspect. That does not happen that often: out report The police show that agents, for example, shot in a targeted 214 times in 2024, but that this was an injured or aggressive animal in at least 202 cases.
The fact that the police shoot a person happens a few times a year, it appears from figures From the OM. For example, agents in Amsterdam shot the German influencer Sammy Baker dead after they seemed to threaten with a knife. And in March 2022 an agent in Waalwijk killed the unarmed Timothy van der Boor in an attempt. The agents who had shot went free in both cases.
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