A man killed a woman with an ax in front of police officers in Berlin-Lichtenberg. Police officers then shot the attacker. The first details about the identity of the dead are now clear.
There was a homicide in the Lichtenberg district of Berlin on Sunday morning. At around 7:40 a.m., the police were alerted to Löwenberger Strasse, a police spokesman told rbb|24. The background is said to have been a dispute in an apartment on the ninth floor of an apartment building.
“When the emergency services arrived on site, a man hit a woman with an ax, so the officers used the firearm,” said police spokesman Martin Dams in a first statement to rbb|24. “The man was hit and fatally injured. The woman succumbed to her injuries on the spot, which the man inflicted on her with the ax.” According to another police spokesman, two officers are said to have shot at the attacker.
According to initial investigations, the victim is a 27-year-old woman and the perpetrator is a 23-year-old man. Neither of them were registered in the apartment on Löwenberger Strasse.
The fourth murder commission of the Berlin State Criminal Police Office has started the investigation. Witnesses in the apartment building on Löwenberger Strasse are also to be heard. The emergency services who were involved on site are receiving pastoral care.
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