German court sentences 'Autobahn gunman' to 10 years in jail


  • World
  • Friday, 31 Oct 2014

BERLIN (Reuters) - A German court on Thursday sentenced a lorry driver to 10 1/2 years in prison for shooting hundreds of times from his cab at other vehicles on the country's motorways.

In more than 700 such attacks from 2008 to 2013, the 58-year-old, dubbed the "Autobahn gunman" by German media, injured several people, one of them a woman he shot in the neck, and damaged hundreds of vehicles.

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