Delmenhorst: Police arrest suspect after shot at driver

Delmenhorst
Police arrest suspect after shot at driver

A man fired a shot at a moving car in Delmenhorst, seriously injuring the 35-year-old driver in the head. Also in the woman’s car were three children, ages eight, ten and twelve. According to the first findings, they remained unharmed, the police said.

A few hours after the crime on Friday afternoon, the police caught a suspect early Friday evening. The 41-year-old man is an urgent suspect and has connections to the woman’s family, said a police spokesman at the scene. The officials assume that the woman was targeted and are investigating an attempted homicide.

According to the police investigation, the allegedly dark-clad perpetrator rode a bicycle towards the woman’s moving car. He then fired a shot, a police spokeswoman said. The bullet smashed through the window on the driver’s side and severely injured the woman’s head. The woman went to a clinic. The police could not provide any information on the exact severity of the injury early Friday evening.

The suspect escaped after the crime. The police were looking for him. There was no danger to the population, it said. The background of the fact was open. “We are investigating in all directions,” said a police spokeswoman. According to the officials, the children who were in the car with the woman had to watch the crime. They received psychological care.

The police secured evidence at the crime scene on Friday evening and questioned witnesses. The crime scene is in a quiet residential area in downtown Delmenhorst, said the police spokesman.

First of all, a traffic accident in the street not far from the train station was reported to the officials on Friday afternoon. The woman’s car drove into a bollard on the side of the road after the crime. Rescue workers then found that the woman had been shot in the head.

dpa