2021 Würzburg stabbing
| 2021 Würzburg stabbing | |
|---|---|
| Location | Würzburg, Bavaria, Germany |
| Date | 25 June 2021 ~17:00 (CEST) |
| Target | Civilians |
Attack type | Mass stabbing |
| Weapons | Knife |
| Deaths | 3 women |
| Injured | 8 (including the perpetrator) |
| Perpetrator | Abdirahman Jibril Ahmed |
The 2021 Würzburg stabbing occurred on 25 June 2021 in Würzburg, Germany. Abdirahman Jibril, a 24-year-old homeless man of Somalian nationality killed three civilians with a kitchen knife in a Woolworth store and wounded seven others. Minutes later, the police shot the suspect in his leg and arrested him. He had a history of several violent altercations since his 2015 arrival as an asylum seeker in Germany and a one day involuntary commitment into a psychiatric hospital a month before the attack. Islamist motives were initially suspected; later investigation assigned cause to the perpertrator's paranoid schizophrenia.