Omar Abdel Hamid El-Hussein

Omar Abdel Hamid El-Hussein (born September 11, 1992 in Vordingborg, died February 15, 2015 in Copenhagen) was a Danish-Palestinian who grew up in Copenhagen and was a son of Palestinian parents, who had stayed in a refugee camp in Jordan, prior to seeking asylum in Denmark.
He was killed by Politiets Aktionsstyrke (the special response unit of the Danish police) after he was designated as a possible suspect for the 2015 Copenhagen shootings. The police later found evidence of his presence at Krudttønden in the form af DNA - traces.
History
He did very well in school, and was admitted to HF at VUC in Hvidovre.
Mainly as a result of video surveillance of the area, El-Hussein was identified by the police as a suspected perpetrator of the shootings in Copenhagen, where he killed Finn Nørgaard and Dan Uzan, and wounded six policemen. After an intensive search, he was tracked down and killed by the special response unit of the Danish police (Politiets Aktionsstyrke) in connection with a shootout, on the 15th outside Svanevej 1 in Nørrebro.
On February 20, he was buried in the Muslim graveyard in Brøndby.

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