According to information from the German Press Agency, the suspect is a former patient of the victim after initial investigations. The police and public prosecutor’s office only said on Tuesday that there were indications “that there was work-related contact between the victim and the alleged perpetrator several years ago.”
Arrested shortly after the crime
When asked, a police spokesman did not want to comment in more detail. On Tuesday, an investigating judge ordered the man to be placed in a specialist clinic in Lower Bavaria. The public prosecutor’s office and the criminal police are now investigating the murder of the German, who was arrested by police shortly after the crime on Monday evening, covered in blood. Information about a possible motive was not initially made public. According to police, the suspected murder weapon, a kitchen knife, was seized.
Attack after the end of duty
The Upper Bavaria administrative district is responsible for the affected clinic for psychiatry, psychotherapy, psychosomatic medicine, geriatrics and neurology in Wasserburg am Inn. According to a district spokeswoman, the 64-year-old doctor had been employed at the clinic for many years. “He only worked with lawbreakers, in law enforcement,” said the spokeswoman. The attack occurred after the man had finished his duties.
A witness alerted police officers to the victim shortly after 6 p.m. on Monday evening. The officers were actually on the clinic grounds for another operation. First responders attended to the injured man, but he died shortly afterwards. The suspect was arrested without resistance not far from the crime scene, still on the hospital premises.
Open area
According to the district, the clinic site is an open area. “The majority of mentally ill people here are not lawbreakers,” said the spokeswoman. In many cases, these people are concerned about endangering themselves rather than endangering others. Operations at the clinic continued largely as normal on Tuesday, as the spokeswoman said. “There are patients there.” However, there was the opportunity for employees to turn to emergency pastoral care and crisis intervention.
