Original: Chris Gueffroy (June 21, 1968, Pasewalk, Mecklenburg-Vorpommern & ndash; February 6, 1989) was the last person to be shot while trying to escape to West Berlin across the Berlin Wall.
Simplified: Gueffroy and his friend Christian Gaudian tried to escape from East Berlin to West Berlin on the night of February 5 to February 6, 1989.