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After a violent crime in downtown St. Gallen Wednesday afternoon, police fired multiple shots at a man. Now the prosecutor has reported the background.
The latest findings summarized:
- A 22-year-old enters the home on Speicherstrasse in St. Gallen and attacks the 46-year-old with a blunt-edged object, fatally wounding them.
- The police fired several shots at those allegedly responsible and also fatally wounded him.
- The St. Gallen prosecutor assumes that the victim and the perpetrator did not know each other. The assailant is said to have had psychological problems.
- The exact circumstances of the crime are being further investigated.
(Pd / but / tn) After a major operation by the city and canton police of St. Gallen on Wednesday afternoon, two deaths occurred. About a day later, the St. Gallen prosecutor reported the additional history of the violent crime:
Police were informed by a third party
As stated in a press release from the St. Gallen prosecutor’s office, a third party reported to St. Gallen city police shortly after 12 noon that a violent crime had occurred in an apartment on Speicherstrasse. in St. Gallen.
According to the latest findings, a 22-year-old Swiss man entered a residential building on Speicherstrasse in St. Gallen. “As a result, he gained access to an apartment and beat a 46-year-old woman there extremely brutally with a blunt object,” the St. Gallen prosecutor said.
The assailant probably had psychological problems.
It is also said that the arriving police officers asked the alleged perpetrator several times to stop. However, he did not react and continued to “hit the woman very hard.”
The two policemen then fired several shots at the alleged perpetrator. “The 22-year-old Swiss died at the scene,” the prosecutor said. The 46-year-old woman was taken to St. Gallen Cantonal Hospital with the most severe head injuries, but where she died as a result of a severe traumatic brain injury.
According to the prosecutor, another woman was also in the apartment at the time of the crime. It was also this that she reported to the police. As FM1Today writes, the woman suffered a laceration to her head, but remained unharmed.
According to initial findings, the victims and perpetrators were not known
It also says that the circumstances, how this event occurred and what was the motive of the alleged perpetrator, are the subject of new investigations. At this point, both the choice of household and the victim would seem completely random.
There would also be indications that the alleged perpetrator had psychological problems. Upon request, Regula Stöckli, media spokesperson for the St. Gallen prosecutor’s office, explains why the authorities assume that the attacker has psychological problems:
“The conclusions are the result of the course of events and the extreme brutality of how the alleged aggressor beat the woman.”
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.
