“In order to support the police in solving this crime, we ask for your help,” said the parents on Saturday. According to the Tyrolean edition of the “Kronen Zeitung”, the investigations have so far not led to any hot leads.
The parents’ approach was “in close cooperation and coordination with the LKA Tirol,” it said. A detective from abroad contacted the two and offered his financial support for a reward tender, as they had already had success with it in the past, the parents justified the step. It is a great burden to know that the perpetrator is still walking around freely.
Walk ended in disaster
The 37-year-old father was walking with his boy in a pram at the end of August on a Sunday at 4 a.m. on a promenade in the market town next to the Ache when the crime happened. According to the LKA, the fact that the man was out with the boy at this time is “quite normal behavior” and nothing unusual. The man stated that he often did this to calm his mentally handicapped child.
Suddenly the perpetrator approached the father from behind in the area of the main school jetty and gave him a targeted and powerful hit on the back of the head with a bottle. The man lay unconscious. The perpetrator is said to have taken the man’s wallet and mobile phone. He fled in an unknown direction. The cell phone and wallet were eventually found in the immediate vicinity of the crime scene.
Passerby found unconscious father
According to the current state of investigation, the six-year-old finally got out of the stroller on his own and fell into the river. There was only an embankment between the river and the promenade. The child was aborted and finally found dead around 600 meters downstream.
At around 5:20 a.m., the father was found unconscious by a passer-by. This informed the rescue. In the course of the assistance, the 37-year-old then asked about his child. A search operation was then initiated and the six-year-old was finally recovered an hour later.
Source: Nachrichten
