Shots were fired inside a building used by Jehovah's Witnesses in the northern German city of Hamburg on Thursday evening.
The shooting took place in the Gross Borstel district, a few kilometers north of the downtown area of Germany's second-biggest city.
Vehren said police were alerted to the shooting about 9:15 p.m. and were on the scene quickly. He said that after officers arrived, they heard a shot from an upper floor and found a person upstairs who may have been a shooter. He said police did not have to use their firearms. Police had no information on the event that was under way in the building when the shooting took place.
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