(HANAU, Germany) — Piter Minnemann and his friends were eating when they heard shots fired outside the door of the snack bar in Hanau where they had gathered. Minnemann, 18, recalled that he had just got his pizza when the first shots were heard at the Arena Bar. It was the second site targeted in Wednesday night’s shooting of nine people by a German man who had posted an online rant calling for the “complete extermination” of many “races or cultures in our midst.” “We thought it was a blank gun or something. We thought nothing of it,” he said. “Then the man came in, he fired.” The gunman shot two people before coming into the bar, where “he aimed right at us — he shot the first one in the head,” Minnemann said. A pregnant woman jumped out of the window, he said. Michael Probst—AP Piter Minnemann poses for a photograph on Feb. 21, 2020, in front of the snack bar where several people were killed in Hanau, Germany. “He came, fired, emptied his magazine, then everythin
