The two people murdered in the shooting rampage near a synagogue in the German city of Halle on Yom Kippur were identified in local media on Thursday as Jana Lange, 40, and Kevin S., 20.

Lange, according to the reports, was walking home on Wednesday afternoon when she passed the synagogue that shooting suspect Stephan Balliet was trying to break into and was shot as she walked by.

Moments later, the killer drove to a kebab shop, where he shot dead Kevin S., who was on his lunch break from a nearby construction site where he worked as a painter.


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