Gunman kills 1, injures 3 in German disco

Police investigate a shooting in a German nightclub
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A gunman opened fire in a nightclub in Konstanz, Germany, Sunday killing one person and injuring three more.

The shooter was an Iraqi citizen who had lived in Germany for a long time, and police believe they can rule out terrorism as his goal. "The motives of the man who acted alone are unclear," said a police representative. "We are still investigating but the circumstances surrounding the events at the disco in the evening before the shooting are a bit clearer and this led us to rule out a terrorism background."

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Bonnie Kristian

Bonnie Kristian was a deputy editor and acting editor-in-chief of TheWeek.com. She is a columnist at Christianity Today and author of Untrustworthy: The Knowledge Crisis Breaking Our Brains, Polluting Our Politics, and Corrupting Christian Community (forthcoming 2022) and A Flexible Faith: Rethinking What It Means to Follow Jesus Today (2018). Her writing has also appeared at Time Magazine, CNN, USA Today, Newsweek, the Los Angeles Times, and The American Conservative, among other outlets.