A nursing staff found a 92-year-old lifeless in her home.
Now an arrest warrant has been issued - a 17-year-old is said to have killed the senior citizen.
The employee of a care service found a 92-year-old lifeless in her house on Sunday.
A homicide could not be ruled out, the police started the investigation.
Now a 17-year-old suspect has been arrested.
Marktredwitz
- A
92-year-old woman was
killed in
Upper Franconia
.
Now there is an arrest warrant against a
17-year-old
.
Senior woman killed in Marktredwitz: Nursing staff found 92-year-olds in the house
As the
police and public prosecutor announced
on Monday, the employee of a
nursing service found
the senior citizen lifeless on Sunday morning in her single-family home on Ostenstrasse.
Based on the first findings, a
homicide
could not be ruled out.
Police officers from Hof then investigated the circumstances of the death.
Senior woman (92) killed in Marktredwitz: 17-year-old is under suspicion
On Saturday evening (September 19),
a
witness
had apparently seen a man run away from the entrance area of the residential building at around 10:20 p.m.
"The description of the stranger could be assigned to a young man whom
police officers
had found screaming in the residential area in the evening," the statement said.
The 17-year-old was apparently under the influence of various
substances and drugs.
The youth was slightly injured and had damaged several cars.
He came to a hospital, as it was said.
Due to the investigations at the
scene of the crime
as well as further investigations in connection with the death of the 92-year-old, the
suspicion
against the youth was confirmed.
At the request of the Hof public prosecutor, an arrest warrant was issued on Monday on suspicion of manslaughter against the 17-year-old.
Officials arrested him at the
hospital
.
After a 92-year-old was found dead on Sunday in her house in #Marktredwitz, Lkr. #Wunsiedel, criminal investigators from #Hof together with the public prosecutor's office identified a 17-year-old suspect. # Police reports # Upper Franconia: https: // t .co / xbwOI2rABk pic.twitter.com/5UMgYKRAst
- Police Upper Franconia (@PolizeiOFR) September 21, 2020
17-year-old is said to have killed 92-year-olds: the youth is in a correctional facility
On Monday (September 21) the
elderly woman was
autopsied.
According to the findings, the 92-year-old died as a result of massive violence against the head.
The 17-year-old is now in a correctional facility.
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