A 27-year-old man was sentenced to 15 years in prison on Friday for the murder of six members of his family, including his own parents, whom he killed in a shootout, and will have to be committed to a mental hospital.
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Presented as Adrian S., the young man was found guilty of murders and attempted murders after having killed with a semi-automatic 9 mm revolver his father, his mother, his half-brother, his half sister, uncle and aunt, according to the verdict of the Ellwangen regional court in southwest Germany. Some of his victims were shot in the head, and two other family members were seriously injured.
Placement in psychiatric establishment requested
The prosecution and the defense had both demanded the placement in a psychiatric establishment of this man who had a license to carry weapons and practiced sport shooting. He admitted the facts at the start of his trial and expressed his regret. " I simply shot everything that moved, " he said to his judges, according to Der Spiegel .
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The shooting had shocked the country as the young man assured that his mother had subjected him to ill-treatment and had attempted to poison him with female hormones, assertions for which he could not bring the lesser evidence, according to expert reports. However, a psychiatrist established that he suffered from hallucinations and mental illness.
The shooting started on mid-January 24 in Rot am See (southwest of Germany), a small town near Stuttgart, when the young man's family was gathered for the burial of his grandmother. . The shooter himself called the police to report himself, before waiting for the officers at the scene of the crime.
