Story highlights Police: The shooter was driving a silver Mercedes convertible

He also took shots at a farmer and threatened a motorist with a gun, police say

Berlin (CNN) Violent crime is nearly unheard of in the villages snuggled between rolling meadows and medieval castles of Germany's northern Bavaria. So, on Friday, when a gunman in a convertible allegedly shot two people dead in a drive-by shooting spree, jaws dropped.

"In a town with 5,500 residents, where we've always lived in tranquillity, we only know situations like this from television shows," Siegfried Hess, mayor of Leutershausen told regional news site nordbayern.de.

Police apprehended the gunman but not before he fired upon or threatened at least four people with his gun, Middle Franconia Police said.

The suspect, driving a silver Mercedes, first shot dead a woman in the hamlet of Leutershausen-Tiefenthal, police said. He then allegedly headed to the village of Rammersdorf, where he fatally shot a man on a bicycle.

A drive-by shooter killed two people in and around the town of Leutershausen in Germany, police say

In addition, he fired at a farmer and threatened a motorist with a gun. Those victims appear to be unhurt, police said.

Read More