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Manhunt for 51-year-old after shots continues
Police officers secured traces at the crime scene outside of a fast food restaurant in Oberhausen. photo
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After the shots were fired in front of a fast-food restaurant in Oberhausen, with three injured, the police are still looking for the 51-year-old suspect. Investigators also warn that he could still be armed.
The intensive search for the shooter, who is said to have shot three people in front of a fast-food restaurant in Oberhausen, continued on Monday. A homicide commission publicly searched for a photo of a 51-year-old man from Essen.
“We are still looking for the man,” said a police spokeswoman on Monday. Concrete indications of his possible whereabouts by witnesses have not yet been received. The police warned against speaking to the suspect because he could still be armed.
According to the first findings of the investigators, a dispute between two groups suddenly escalated on Saturday evening so that there was a physical argument and then shots were fired. Three people were injured. A 49-year-old suffered an initially life-threatening shot in the stomach. After an emergency operation, however, there is no longer an acute danger to life, said the Duisburg public prosecutor Jill McCuller.
They probably weren’t accidental victims
In addition to the 49-year-old, a 47-year-old woman and a 28-year-old man were also injured by gunshots. The woman was shot in the leg and the man in the arm. According to the public prosecutor’s office, all three of the injured come from Gelsenkirchen and are being treated in the hospital. The suspected shooter – a Turkish national – had fled in a car, according to initial findings.
The investigators assume that the injured are not accidental victims, but that a meeting was arranged – and that more people were involved on both sides. There may be business relationships between the people, it said.
Recordings from surveillance cameras should provide further insight into the course of the crime. Just two and a half hours after the shots were fired in the Ruhr area city of Oberhausen, police officers provisionally arrested a 40-year-old man in Gelsenkirchen. He is said to have been present at the act but not shot. He was in police custody. The investigation into the background of the crime and the alleged shooter continued.
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