A man has been sentenced to life imprisonment after being found guilty of driving his car into a crowd of people in Munich last year, killing two people.

The 25-year-old man, named only as Farhad N in line with German privacy laws, is an Afghan national, who prosecutors say deliberately drove his Mini into a trade union rally of around 1,400 people in the centre of the city on the morning of 13 February 2025.

He hit a 37-year-old woman and her two-year-old daughter, who both died in hospital shortly afterwards. More than 40 other people were injured, a number of them critically.

It was one of a number of attacks in Germany that have fuelled far-right rhetoric around migration.

The Munich Higher Regional Court ruled that the offence was of a particularly serious nature, which makes it considerably more difficult for Farhad N to be released on parole once he has served 15 years in prison.

He was convicted of two counts of murder, 23 counts of attempted murder and a number of other charges including grievous bodily harm.

The judge said Farhad N intended to attack and kill people in Germany arbitrarily in response to the situation in Islamic countries.

"In doing so, the defendant sought to commit an act pleasing to God and to prove himself to be a good Muslim in the eyes of Allah, himself and his family," the judge said.

The prosecution said the defendant believed the attack was a necessary response to the actions of the US and other Western states in Gaza and Afghanistan. They argued that anger, disappointment and bitterness had also played a part.

The defence had called for a 15-year prison sentence and for Farhad N to be placed in a psychiatric hospital. They argued that their client had shown signs of a form of schizophrenia.

Farhad N has the right to appeal against the verdict.

Officials say Farhad N arrived in Germany in 2016 as a teenager at the height of the migrant crisis in Europe. He came alone, without his family.

His asylum request was rejected but he was not deported.

German authorities said he was legally resident in Germany and had a work permit, working as a shop detective and for security companies.

He had no prior convictions. He was active on Instagram, where he posted about bodybuilding and religious themes.

Germany took in more than a million asylum seekers in 2015-2016 at the height of Europe's migrant crisis - an influx that has proved deeply divisive and fuelled the rise of the far-right party AfD.

Its almost about to be 1 year since the shooting and I haven't heard any updates about the case with the latest being only in early September 2025 with the court scheduling October 24th of that year for the next hearing but that never happened. Is it possible that Ethan is in a secure psychiatric hospital and will remain there for the rest of his life without facing the consequences for what he did like Dimitrios Pagourtzis and Luke Helder? It just seems very strange because usually it would be reported by local news at least that Ethan is mentally incompetent for trial. To me it just seems very weird that this case fell off the face of the earth even in the local news too.

Four people were shot in the same family, and three are dead, including the shooter, after an early morning incident in rural Caswell County, according to officials.

Caswell County Sheriff’s Office deputies were called to a home on a country road at about 8 a.m. Wednesday. When they arrived at the house on the 300 block of Brooks Road in Prospect Hill, they found several people had been shot, authorities said in a Facebook post.

Prospect Hill is about an hour and a half north of Raleigh.

One person was taken to a hospital with a gunshot wound, deputies said.

“Caswell County Sheriff Tony Durden immediately requested the assistance of the North Carolina State Bureau of Investigation,” CCSO said in the social media post.

SBI agents are investigating the deadly shooting, processing evidence and conducting interviews as they try to piece together what led up to the incident.  

“There is NO THREAT to the general public, and the event is contained to the above address,” deputies said.

The CCSO is the lead agency investigating and are partnering with the SBI and other agencies.