Investigators found five bodies on Saturday in a single-family house in the 3000-inhabitant town of Senzig near Berlin. Mother, father and three daughters aged four to ten years. Now there is new knowledge about the course of events.
by Matthias Lukaschewitsch, Michael Sauerbier and Ole Kröning
As the public prosecutor’s office in Cottbus and the South Brandenburg police department announced on Monday afternoon, “it can most likely be assumed that the father of the family, who is listed as the author of the suicide note, killed his wife and their three children and subsequently committed suicide” .
No signs of forced entry were found in the house. A firearm was found, neither the man nor the woman are said to have had a gun license.
An autopsy was ordered, with results to be expected in a few days, it said.
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Dead were discovered on Saturday
Investigators say that a neighbor checked on the family at 11:39 a.m. on Saturday. That’s why he entered the house. On the first floor he discovered three “lifeless people.”
The neighbor immediately left the house and alerted the police. Officials arrived at the house at noon. They then discovered two more bodies in the family home.
The five dead were an entire family: Father Devid (40) and mother Linda (40) R. and their three girls: Leni (10), Janni (8) and the youngest Rubi (4).
One of the children was apparently stabbed to death. The girl had corresponding wounds, the investigators said. All other family members “had gunshot wounds,” the investigators said.
As BILD also learned from investigators, “the family was in quarantine at home due to a confirmed Covid-19 infection”.
When the Covid infection became known in the family and since when it has been in quarantine is still open.
On Friday afternoon, neighbors claim to have seen family man Devid R. in front of the house loading his VW Crafters.
Reporting on suicide
BZ usually does not report suicides, so as not to encourage imitation – unless the circumstances make suicides particularly alert.
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