2023-07-29 06:23:33
Two other people were injured. The police arrested the 64-year-old and spoke of a neighborhood dispute.
According to the police, a man shot three people in an apartment building in a small village near Augsburg in Bavaria: two women and one man. He seriously injured two other people on Friday evening. The 64-year-old was arrested following the crime in Langweid, Bavaria, according to the police headquarters in Swabia North in consultation with the public prosecutor’s office. The police are assuming a neighborhood dispute.
“The suspect and the three people who were killed are neighbors who lived in the same apartment building,” the police said on Saturday night. “According to initial findings, the act was preceded by a neighborhood dispute.”
Injured not in mortal danger
Around 7:15 p.m., the suspect killed three people with a firearm in an apartment building on Schubertstrasse, the statement said. It was two women aged 49 and 72 and a 52-year-old man. The police did not say whether they were killed in one of the apartments: “We are only talking regarding the fact that the three victims were killed in the apartment building and do not want to go into detail.”
He then went to another house on Hochvogelstrasse and injured a 32-year-old and a 44-year-old with a firearm. The two are currently being treated in a hospital. According to the police, they were not in mortal danger.
The police had started the search for the perpetrator following being alerted regarding the shots – and stopped the 64-year-old in his car shortly followingwards. “He allowed himself to be arrested without resistance,” said a police spokesman. The man comes from the region, but not from the town itself. The relationship between the alleged perpetrator and the victims is the subject of the investigation.
Forensics are currently at the crime scene. Nothing can be said regarding the background yet, and the spokesman said they wanted to avoid speculation. “We simply have too many victims for that.” Langweid am Lech is located just under 20 minutes by car from Augsburg and has around 7,500 inhabitants. (APA/dpa)
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