All he had to do was go to the police. And have to say that his friend is planning a crazy act. A killing spree in the Pasing Arcades. Either on Friday or Saturday, January 17 or 18, 2020. But Maximilian B. did not go to the police. Instead, in the early morning hours of January 11, 2020, he shot his friend and his parents in their home in Starnberg with a large caliber pistol. But not because he absolutely wanted to prevent the killing spree. According to the conviction of the judges of the 1st youth chamber at the Munich II District Court, the main defendant Maximilian B. in the triple murder in Starnberg was primarily concerned with his friend’s valuable weapon collection, which he wanted to secure before the killing spree.
Because if the killing spree, which the chamber actually assumed, would have happened, the weapon collection would have been “lost” for the accused, said the presiding judge Regina Holstein on Monday in the verdict.
Three people were murdered in this house on Riedener Weg in Starnberg. The property has since been demolished.
(Photo: Franz Xaver Fuchs)
Weapons depot in the apartment of the main perpetrator Maximilian B. in Olching. Officers from the Fürstenfeldbruck criminal investigation agency secured the arsenal in January 2020.
(Photo: Kripo Fürstenfeldbruck)
The chamber sentenced Maximilian B. to a total of 13 years in prison for the murder of the family and for two raids on supermarkets in the Fürstenfeldbruck district. The court sentenced the 22-year-old’s accomplice, 21-year-old Samuel V, to eight and a half years in prison for murder as an accomplice and for robbing a supermarket. Samuel V., according to the chairwoman, drove his friend Maximilian B. to the family property in Starnberg on the night of January 11, 2020 and at least knew that B. would kill their son in order to take part in his weapon collection – including many forbidden weapons of war – to come. Since both defendants were still adolescents at the time of the crime, the Chamber applied juvenile criminal law. When Judge Regina Holstein announced the verdicts, Maximilian B. and Samuel V. seemed completely calm on the outside. Her facial expression without any facial expressions, just like on the previous 79 days of negotiations.
What was going on in the two defendants, who were still teenagers at the time of the crime, and how it came about that they were capable of the crime in Starnberg, was not found out much in the process, which lasted more than one and a half years. A few months after the trial began, Maximilian B. read a statement confessing to the murders. Samuel V. remained silent to the end. Even when Judge Holstein asked how he was at the beginning of the day of the hearing, the 21-year-old first turned to his defense attorneys and asked if he should answer the chairman. Judge Holstein called the son who was killed, an apprentice gunsmith, “a difficult personality” whose great passion was guns and “shooting around” with them. The 21-year-old was lonely, looked for a connection and met Maximilian B. And that “ultimately cost him his life”.
Maximilian B. and Samuel V. committed the raids on supermarkets and the act in Starnberg because they were in financial difficulties and wanted to lead a “cool gangster life,” said judge Holstein. After his arrest, Samuel V. answered a psychiatric expert’s question about how he imagined his future: his career goal was “mafia boss”. The 21-year-old, who the chairman attested to “big man addiction”, only had a part-time job at the time of the crime, but lived big, had expensive hobbies and “a demanding girlfriend,” according to Judge Holstein. The defendants wanted to offer their victim’s weapon collection on the Darknet and receive several hundred thousand euros for it. The money should be invested in cryptocurrencies and stocks.
The main offender, Maximilian B., is led to the dock by a judicial officer.
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Maximilian B. “literally executed his friend’s father with three shots” that night on January 11, 2020 in Starnberg, the chairwoman said. Likewise his wife. When B. shot her, she was lying in her bed. Maximilian B. had spent the hours before the crime with his friend in his room and consumed drugs with him. When the then 21-year-old gunsmith apprentice fell asleep, B. shot him in the right temple at close range with a large-calibre pistol. Since the parents of the gunsmith apprentice were also present, they too had to die.
After the crime, B. put the pistol from which he had fired the fatal shot into his friend’s hand. It was meant to appear as if he shot his parents and then judged himself. In fact, the Fürstenfeldbruck criminal police initially assumed it was a family drama.