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New finds after the bloody act on Speicherstrasse: The “blunt-edged” murder weapon was a metal frying pan. It is also clear that the perpetrator lived close to the victim until 2017. The prosecution does not assume any link.
“The murder weapon was a metal frying pan that the perpetrator kept in his victim’s apartment,” says Regula Stöckli, press officer for the canton of St. Gallen prosecutor on request. The prosecutor had previously spoken of an object “with blunt edges.”
The 22-year-old perpetrator broke into an apartment of a house on Speicherstrasse in St. Gallen last Wednesday, where he struck a 46-year-old woman present “extremely brutally with a blunt-edged object.” Police forces shot the perpetrator, who died at the scene. The woman died of severe head injuries at the hospital. A woman also present in the apartment had alerted the police. Other than a laceration to her head, she was not injured.
Assumptions are not taken into account
When consulted, the prosecutor confirmed that the attacker lived in the middle of the crime scene until mid-2017. “But we don’t see any connection,” says Stöckli. It is still assumed that the aggressor and the victim did not know each other. Both the selection of the apartment and that of the victim would appear completely random, the prosecutor reported last week.
However, Stöckli does not want to respond to the suspicions of other media that the perpetrator had a drug problem, was in psychiatric treatment for depression or schizophrenia and that he expressed violent fantasies in a song published on Facebook in mid-August, for reasons of privacy protection.
But one thing is clear: the Prosecutor’s Office also assumes that the aggressor has psychological problems. “The findings are the result of the course of events and the extreme brutality of how the alleged perpetrator beat the woman,” Stöckli said last week.
A police force outside the canton investigates the incident
The incident is now being investigated by a police force outside the canton, a “standard procedure after shooting,” as the prosecutor writes. Internal and external help, such as psychological support, was also made available to the two affected police officers immediately after deployment.
