19-year-old murdered in Lüneburg: suspect captured | NDR.de – Nachrichten – Lower Saxony



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Status: 19.01.2021 2:44 pm

After a 19-year-old girl was found dead in her car in Lüneburg early Tuesday morning, police arrested a 19-year-old suspect at noon.

The detained person comes from the environment of the murdered. The police announced this in the early afternoon. The police did not provide any information on the question of the relationship between the two. According to the police, the young woman was discovered in her car in a parking lot on Altenbrückerdamm in the Schützenplatz district around 3 am – by her own father. The 19-year-old, who hails from the Lüneburg district, did not return home after work, he said. So the concerned father went looking for her.

Multiple injuries to the woman’s body.

Lüneburg: Police officers search a railway embankment near the parking lot where the body of a woman was found in a car.  © dpa-Bildfunk Photo: Philipp Schulze

During the search for clues in the vicinity of the crime scene, the alleged murder weapon was discovered.

It quickly became clear to investigators that the 19-year-old had been the victim of a crime: The woman’s body had several wounds from which the woman died, according to a police spokeswoman. Also, there was no evidence of suicide.

Possible discovered weapon

The emergency doctor who was called could only determine the death of the young woman. Immediately afterwards, police began searching for clues in the pouring rain. In the morning, a search was conducted in the wider area around the crime scene. A knife was found, probably the murder weapon, according to police. A homicide squad is investigating.

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