The fugitive suspect in the case of a fatal attack in Göttingen is a pre-convicted sex offender. The 52-year-old sat according to public prosecutor Göttingen three times because of rape in prison.
Recently, he was sentenced to six years imprisonment in 1994, said a spokesman for the authority. In 2001 he was released. Previously, the fugitive had been sentenced once to five years and once to two years and nine months in prison.
According to police, the attack took place on Thursday afternoon in Göttingen's Grone district. The man had quarreled with a woman, this attacked with a weapon and fatally injured.
Witnesses who wanted to help her were also attacked by the alleged perpetrator, according to the police. A second woman suffered such serious injuries that she had to be hospitalized. She floats according to police in mortal danger. After the crime, the man fled with a bicycle.
The police are looking for the suspect with two photos. Eyewitnesses want to have discovered him in the morning in a local train to Hannover. According to media reports, the train crew included a person who might have been the suspect in a compartment and alerted the federal police. The person hit the window with an emergency hammer and escaped on foot in the Elze train station, the police said.
A spokeswoman for the police warned against addressing the man, who was probably still armed. "The search continues," she said in the afternoon. "We consider Elze a very hot track."