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Jealousy is a possible motive. According to police reports from Saturday, the public prosecutor’s office in St. Pölten ordered an autopsy. Furthermore, the imposition of pre-trial detention had been announced.
There was no official information on the motive for the crime on Saturday. According to an online report by the “Kronen Zeitung”, the 42-year-old said that he was “jealous of his mother’s partner”. According to the media report, the biological father died years ago.
The State Police Directorate announced further details about what happened on Thursday. While the 62-year-old victim was taken out of the family home and succumbed to the serious injuries on the spot, the suspect holed himself up in the attic of the property. Members of the East negotiation group tried for a long time to persuade the man to give up. According to the police, he suddenly fired several times at members of the Cobra task force during the negotiation phase. As a result, the officers fired shots in the direction of the 42-year-old – “out of obvious self-defense,” as the executive emphasized.
The accused who was finally arrested is said to have suffered a graze in the chest area and also been hit in the right hand. The man was taken to a hospital with minor injuries.
The course of the shooting was reconstructed on Friday by officers from the State Criminal Police Office of Lower Austria in cooperation with specialists from the Federal Criminal Police Office. The handgun found and seized in the family home has now been assigned to the accused. He owned them illegally. Whether the 42-year-old fired at the officers was the subject of further investigations, as was the exact number of shots fired.
Media reports have been confirmed that the 42-year-old has an apartment in Vienna. According to APA information, the man is likely to have stayed in the family home in the Melk cadastral community of Pielach again and again.
Source: Nachrichten
