Berlin Pride Event Attacker Killed in Police Shootout, Officials Say

THE NEW YORK TIMES: The confrontation with the suspect in what has been described as a likely act of Islamist terrorism occurred as a large-scale manhunt was underway, the authorities said.

Screenshot is from this NYT article. | A day after the attack, grief-stricken people gathered near the Brandenburg Gate. Credit: Ebrahim Noroozi/Associated Press
The police on Sunday evening shot and killed the man suspected of killing a woman and injuring 29 other people near a Berlin gay Pride celebration after he charged at officers with a weapon, the German authorities said.

The man, a 21-year-old German citizen with a family migration history from Lebanon, had been the subject of a protracted nationwide manhunt since the Saturday evening attack. The suspect used a rented van and what appeared to be a machete in the attack, which German officials called an act of Islamist terrorism.

In a brief statement, the police said they had tracked the suspect to an area in a western corner of the city where residents maintain large garden patches. After officers shot him, emergency responders tried to revive him, but he died at the scene, the police said.

The authorities said their investigation into the attack was continuing, even after the death of the man they had singled out as their prime suspect. Earlier in the day, Friedrich Merz, the German chancellor, and other officials had raised the possibility that more than one person was involved. » | Jim Tankersley | Reporting from Berlin | Sunday, July 26, 2026