In the case of the triple murder in Starnberg, the Regional Court of Munich II sentenced the main defendant to 13 years in prison. The court considered it proven that the main defendant, now 22 years old, shot his friend and his parents in January 2020. According to the court, his 21-year-old roommate had planned the murder of their common friend and had driven the main perpetrator to the crime scene. He was sentenced to eight years and six months in prison for one count of murder.
Actually, in juvenile criminal law, even murder has a maximum sentence of ten years. However, if adolescents – i.e. people between 18 and 21 years of age – are convicted under juvenile criminal law, up to 15 years are possible in rare cases of murder with a particularly serious degree of guilt.
The main defendant – in contrast to his co-defendant – confessed to the crimes during the trial and admitted that through the murders he also wanted to get the weapons that his buddy illegally owned in order to sell them. He also wanted to prevent a killing spree that his friend had planned in a shopping center. The public prosecutor’s office did not doubt that these plans for the serious crime existed. However, this “doesn’t even begin to justify the act,” the prosecution said in its closing argument.
The crime from January 2020 also made headlines because the investigators were initially on the wrong track and assumed that the young man had shot his parents and then himself. But in the end, the police and prosecutors had to realize that everything was probably very different.