German mass shooting suspect dies by suicide in prison

Six welfare workers were killed in the shooting at the shelter; a child showing signs of abuse was involved in the custody dispute.

In the town of Stade, Germany, a custody dispute over an infant daughter escalated into one of the country's deadliest mass shootings in recent memory, claiming the lives of six welfare workers at a shelter meant to protect the vulnerable. The man accused of the killings, Fatih Khan G., was found dead in his prison cell last Tuesday — an apparent suicide — before any trial could begin. His death forecloses a public reckoning, leaving the families of the slain without a courtroom confrontation, and leaving society to sit with the harder questions: how warning signs go unheeded, how weapons reac

German mass shooting suspect dies by suicide in prison

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