Police in German city arrest suspect who took gun from officer and shot her in head in non-terrorism-related incident

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A police officer has been shot in the head at a Munich metro station after a man grabbed her service pistol and opened fire, also injuring two bystanders.

The officer’s injuries were considered life-threatening, while those to the two bystanders shot at the Unterfoehring station were less serious, the Munich police spokesman Marcus da Gloria Martins said.

The suspect was seriously injured after being shot by police, he said.

“There was one suspect and we’ve got him,” Da Gloria Martins told reporters at the scene.

Authorities did not believe the incident was terrorism-related, and that the suspect appeared to have acted out of “personal” reasons and not with political or religious motivations, Da Gloria Martins said.

Police had been called to the subway station after receiving reports of an altercation between passengers on a train. When officers arrived the suspect tried to push them on to the tracks, Da Gloria Martins said.

The suspect then grabbed the officer’s gun and fired several shots before he was shot himself and taken into custody.