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Stade shooting suspect found dead in cell at Bremervörde
The suspect in the Stade shooting was found dead on July 21, 2026, at 6:00 AM in his cell at Bremervörde prison (Lower Saxony), discovered by a guard during morning inspection. Death was confirmed at 6:29 AM by strangulation. Lower Saxony's justice ministry found no evidence of third-party involvement at this stage. The 45-year-old man, born in Germany but of Turkish nationality, had killed six employees at a Youth Office facility in Stade on June 29, 2026, during a custody dispute over his three-month-old daughter.