The 45-year-old man held on suspicion of shooting dead six social workers at a mother-and-child welfare facility in Stade (a town in the northern German state of Lower Saxony) has been found dead in his prison cell, apparently by suicide. He was discovered during a routine morning check at the Bremervörde remand facility, with a doctor determining the cause of death as strangulation and no signs of third-party involvement. The shootings occurred in late June during a scheduled care meeting concerning the custody of his three-month-old daughter, and prosecutors say the investigation will continue to establish the full circumstances and examine the possible involvement of two women connected to the suspect.