The next day he began a clean-up operation at his home, washing the dining room carpet and scrubbing every inch of the house with what one police officer recalled was a "lemony" cleaning fluid.

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Graffiti-splashed Liebigstrasse 14 had ten flats, artists' studios, two washing-machines and 25 tenants who found room in Berlin for a way of life centred on sharing rather than striving.

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About 45 minutes later, McNeil will move to the operating room to clean out Mellinger's wound, washing out bits of bullet and bone fragments from his thigh.

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