In Bochum, a deaf girl approached police officers with two knives. The officers used a Taser and a firearm simultaneously. The twelve-year-old was taken to hospital with serious injuries.
Police in Bochum stopped a twelve year old boy armed with two knives using a firearm. He approached officers with a knife in his hand, as police in Essen announced on Monday. To ward off the impending attack, police officers used Tasers and firearms simultaneously. The twelve-year-old was taken to hospital with serious injuries.
The girl, who has German and Serbian citizenship, is considered missing. The sick and deaf girl had disappeared from the residential group the day before and was relying on essential medication. The operation was carried out on Monday evening after receiving information that the missing woman was in her mother’s apartment in an apartment building in Bochum.
Shortly after midnight, emergency services arrived at the apartment building. Investigators said officers heard voices coming from inside the apartment, but the door was not opened. Not even an hour later mother opened the door.
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“While clarifying the truth and searching the apartment, emergency services encountered a 12-year-old child who approached police officers with two knives in his hands,” the police office and prosecutor’s office said. To ward off the impending attack, one of the officers used his electrical impulse device and the other fired with his service weapon.
Police officers provided first aid until emergency services arrived. An emergency doctor then took the twelve-year-old to a nearby hospital, where he underwent successful surgery. “He survived the operation well,” a police spokesman said. “The girl’s condition is critical but stable.”
How many shots officers fired remains under investigation, the spokesman said. How the communication between the deaf mother and the deaf girl at the location takes place is also still being clarified.
A twelve year old should not be allowed to stay in his mother’s apartment like that. The mother had previously been stripped of parental rights and her right to decide where the girl lived, investigators said.
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