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On March 9, 2023, a shooting in the Alsterdorf quarter of Hamburg, Germany, kills eight people and injures another eight. The year's #1 song was "Last Night" by Morgan Wallen.
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Featured · March 9, 2023
On 9 March 2023, a mass shooting occurred at a Jehovah's Witnesses Kingdom Hall in the Alsterdorf quarter of Hamburg, Germany. The shooter, identified as 35-year-old Philipp Fusz, entered the building after a service was held there and opened fire, killing six adults and an unborn child, and injuring eight others before killing himself minutes later. Fusz was a former member of the Jehovah's Witnesses, had no previous criminal record, and was not a known extremist.
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2023 (MMXXIII) was a common year starting on Sunday of the Gregorian calendar, the 2023rd year of the Common Era (CE) and Anno Domini (AD) designations, the 23rd year of the 3rd millennium and the 21st century, and the 4th year of the 2020s decade.
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2023 mass murder in Hamburg, Germany
On 9 March 2023, a mass shooting occurred at a Jehovah's Witnesses Kingdom Hall in the Alsterdorf quarter of Hamburg, Germany. The shooter, identified as 35-year-old Philipp Fusz, entered the building after a service was held there and opened fire, killing six adults and an unborn child, and injuring eight others before killing himself minutes later. Fusz was a former member of the Jehovah's Witnesses, had no previous criminal record, and was not a known extremist.
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