{"id":387183,"date":"2026-07-26T19:21:27","date_gmt":"2026-07-26T19:21:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/387183\/"},"modified":"2026-07-26T19:21:27","modified_gmt":"2026-07-26T19:21:27","slug":"berlin-pride-attack-suspect-killed-in-police-confrontation-after-24-hour-search","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/387183\/","title":{"rendered":"Berlin Pride attack suspect killed in police confrontation after 24-hour search"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>BERLIN, Germany (TNND)  \u2014 The suspect involved in the <a href=\"https:\/\/thenationaldesk.com\/news\/americas-news-now\/1-dead-and-16-injured-after-van-crashes-into-crowd-at-berlin-pride-event-germany-tiergarten-alexander-klute-motive-perpetrator-police-life-threatening-injuries-ambulances-firefighters-law-enforcement-celebration-concert-lgbtq#\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">deadly Berlin Pride attack<\/a> that left one dead and 29 injured was shot and killed during a confrontation with the police on Sunday, according to authorities. <\/p>\n<p>Abdul Ballout, a German citizen with Lebanese roots, was killed after a nearly 24-hour search following the attack in downtown Berlin. Prosecutors said Ballout had previously sought to join the militant Islamic State group.<\/p>\n<p>He was suspected of driving a van into a crowd near Berlin\u2019s Pride festival on Saturday night before apparently stabbing others with a machete. Law enforcement shared that they believe it was an Islamic extremist terror attack.<\/p>\n<p>Germany&#8217;s Interior Minister Alexander Dobrindt shared that the attack occurred near a party that took place near the Brandenburg Gate that was supposed to close out the city\u2019s Pride festival.<\/p>\n<p>Police tracked Ballout&#8217;s location around 6 p.m. on Sunday at a garden in Spandau, a Berlin suburb. Police said Ballout apparently ran toward officers with a sharp instrument, and police fired at least one shot. He died at the scene.<\/p>\n<p>Ballout was born in Germany, the minister said. His mother was naturalized in 2002, three years before he was born.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"BERLIN, Germany (TNND) \u2014 The suspect involved in the deadly Berlin Pride attack that left one dead and&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":387184,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[82,84,83],"class_list":["post-387183","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-san-antonio","tag-san-antonio","tag-san-antonio-headlines","tag-san-antonio-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/387183","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=387183"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/387183\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/387184"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=387183"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=387183"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=387183"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}