Simplify the following text for a Grade 13 native English-speaking person.
Original: In 2000 , two SED functionaries , Siegfried Lorenz and Hans-Joachim BÃ hme , were tried for the death of Gueffroy and two other young men , but acquitted as the judge could find no evidence that they might have been able to lift the shoot-to-kill order .
Simplified: In 2000 , two SED officials , Siegfried Lorenz and Hans-Joachim BÃ hme , were tried for the death of Gueffroy and two other young men , but acquitted as the judge could find no evidence that they might have been able to lift the shoot-to-kill order .