Amoktäter is alleged to be violent

Author: Editorial

August 19, 2009

Schwalmtal. After the shooting, with three dead and one seriously injured in the Lower Rhine Schwalmtal the police investigating a 71-year-old man, according to media reports, he will be as aggressive and violent, have been known. "My ex-father has threatened me several times with murder," quoted in Dusseldorf published "West German newspaper" a 44-year-old man in whose house had played the bloody deed.

The 44-year-old assume that the murder was applicable to him: "If I do not let Barbara's house, he makes sure that I'm six feet deep, he said." Is not impossible that a man as a co-owner of the House narrowly escaped death. He will be represented at the last moment of his attorney at the time have, in which the value of the house should be determined.

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Following further media reports of alleged Amoktäter have beaten a relative hospitalized with a baseball bat. Neighbours reported that the man had been locked in the past frequently. For years there have always been fierce dispute within the family. The alleged Amoktäter was unpredictable, if it had gone to the home of his daughter.

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The 71-year-old was on Tuesday holed up in the house, which was to be foreclosed because of the separation of his daughter and her husband. The family had met someone else in the house when suddenly, the situation escalated and shots were fired.

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What are the suspected weapon used Amoktäter is still unclear. According to the television station N 24 it might have been the weapon to a gun. Whether the 71-year-old had a weapons permit, is currently unknown. Also unclear is the fate of the currently 71-year-old daughter. Speculation is that it is one of the three people who could leave the house unharmed.

(Ddp-nrw)

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