Hamburg district court: Daughter stalked, shot at mother – long prison term for attempted murder

Criminal justice building in Hamburg: seat of the district court

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In the trial for the attempted murder of a 53-year-old woman in Hamburg-Wilhelmsburg, the Hamburg Regional Court sentenced the accused to eleven and a half years in prison.

The 24-year-old was guilty of two counts of attempted murder, dangerous bodily harm and other criminal offenses, said the head of the criminal division, Birgit Woitas.

According to the court, the accused shot the woman and her then 13-year-old son on March 11, 2021 – in front of the family home.

The motive for the crime was the man's irritation at the 53-year-old's daughter.

The high school graduate rejected his advances.

He didn't accept that and stalked her for over a year, the judge said.

Son pulled injured mother into house

In early 2021, the defendant sent threats and penis photos to an uninvolved woman via Instagram, mistaking her for his daughter.

Assuming that his mother was slandering him as a rapist, he became angry.

On the day of the crime, he surprised the woman and her son in front of the front door, yelled at them and suddenly shot them both.

The uninjured son pulled the mother into the house and closed the door.

The 53-year-old was seriously injured in the head by the shots and was in potential danger to life, as the judge said.

Prosecutors had asked for a life sentence.

The co-plaintiff had also requested that the particular severity of the guilt be determined.

The defense had advocated a maximum sentence of five years in prison.

The verdict is not yet legally binding.

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