A family quarrel gets out of hand. A 39-year-old man injured his wife, mother-in-law and two neighbors with a knife until he was finally stopped with a gunshot by the police.
Groß-Gerau – After an escalated family dispute, a 39-year-old was shot by the police in Groß-Gerau, Hesse.
The man had previously injured his wife, his mother-in-law and two neighbors with a knife, the prosecutor in Darmstadt announced on Wednesday. The 66-year-old mother-in-law was seriously injured in the attack on Tuesday evening.
According to the prosecutor, the Somali first attacked his 40-year-old wife and her mother after the dispute. When the wife fled from the apartment, the 39-year-old followed her and also injured the two 43 and 46-year-old neighbors who were hurrying to help.
When the alerted police patrol arrived, they shot the Somali when they were arrested, the police announced on Tuesday evening. The seriously injured man died while an emergency doctor was being treated.
How many shots were fired and the background to the knife attacks are currently the subject of the investigation, according to the prosecutor. The 39-year-old should now be autopsied. The investigators initially did not want to provide any further information. The Darmstadt public prosecutor’s office and the Hessian State Criminal Police Office in Wiesbaden have taken over the investigation. dpa
