User:Chinmaysanghi/sandbox/Dordrecht shooting

The Dordrecht Shooting took place in a home at 6:30pm local time in Dordrecht, a city in Netherlands, located about 24 kilometres southeast of the Dutch city of Rotterdam. The house was located in a quiet and peaceful neighbourhood of Dordrecht. During this shooting there were 4 victims who were all killed. This incident occurred on 9th September 2019.

The attack
This attack began when a police officer named Wendell C. who was 35 years old at the time decided to shoot his family members who were his 2 daughters, 12 and 8 years old respectively, and also seriously injuring a 28 year old woman who is the mother of these two girls who later passed away in intensive care. The police officer then turned the gun onto himself and committed suicide.

The shooter
The suspected shooter, a 35-year-old man, named Wendell C , who was a Dutch police officer, shot and killed his two young children, he also shot and seriously wounded his 28-year-old wife(4), who later died in a hospital, and a fourth relative before turning the gun and shooting himself at a home in the city of Dordrecht on Monday evening.

The victims
Four people were died in this incident;

The gunman (Wendell C.).

His eight and twelve years old daughters.

The 27-year-old wife died in the hospital later that night. A Local newspaper reported that the couple were separating, but they still live together.

The investigation
An initial police statement indicated that a 35-year-old man, known as Wendell C., a policeman in Rotterdam, was probably the perpetrator and after strong investigation Miriam Slot, a spokeswoman police, confirmed it.

The police report published the following days indicates that the victims are Wendell C.(35 years old), his two daughters Nicolle (12 years old) and Naiomy (8 years old), and his ex-wife Maryori (28 years old) dead the next day, from her injuries.

The report also indicate that the events have followed this chronological order:


 * 5:00 p.m., Wendell C. has finished his shift and is leaving his workplace.
 * 5:50 p.m.,  He came back to work to get his service weapon and left immediately.
 * 6:15 p.m., His daughter Nicolle was not at home so he called her and said she needs to came back.
 * 6:30 p.m., He killed his family members before turning the gun on himself. The emergency calls were made within minutes of the incident.
 * 7:00 p.m., Police investigations start and the bodies of the victims and the injured are taken care of by the medical authorities.

The night of Tuesday September 10 2019, Maryori, the mom of the two daughters, is dead from her injuries.

The Public Prosecutor’s office reports that the National Criminal Investigation Department concludes that the police officer killed his wife and children with his service weapon because of "relationship problems". The couple had had an appointment two days earlier with a lawyer to settle the terms of the divorce but they continued to live under the same roof.

Aftermath
The city was then put on partial lockdown with several roads around the crime scene blocked off to ensure the safety of others. Later on, the mayor of Dordrecht, Wouter Kolff, put out a message onto social media calling this incident a “a very serious shooting incident”.