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85-year-old hunter shoots neighbor couple: "It annoyed him that the couple ran naked through the garden"

2022-06-14T08:15:07.055Z


85-year-old hunter shoots neighbor couple: "It annoyed him that the couple ran naked through the garden" Created: 06/14/2022, 10:04 am Neighborhood dispute escalated: now three people are dead in Bienenbüttel (Lower Saxony). The police are securing traces at the crime scene. © Philipp Schulze/dpa On Friday, three bodies were found on neighboring residential properties in Bienenbüttel, Lower Sax


85-year-old hunter shoots neighbor couple: "It annoyed him that the couple ran naked through the garden"

Created: 06/14/2022, 10:04 am

Neighborhood dispute escalated: now three people are dead in Bienenbüttel (Lower Saxony). The police are securing traces at the crime scene.

© Philipp Schulze/dpa

On Friday, three bodies were found on neighboring residential properties in Bienenbüttel, Lower Saxony.

A hunter shot his neighbor couple.

  • Neighborhood dispute in Bienenbüttel (Lower Saxony): Were trees in the idyllic settlement the trigger?

  • On neighboring residential properties, police found the bodies of an 85-year-old property owner and the 62-year-old owner of the neighboring property and his 61-year-old wife.

  • According to initial findings, the 85-year-old is said to have killed his neighbors and then killed himself.

  • Local residents tell: did hunters shoot his neighbors because they ran naked through the garden?

Update from June 13, 11:42 a.m

.: More and more details about the terrible deed of Bienenbüttel are coming to light.

On Friday evening, the 85-year-old hunter shot his neighbors (61 and 62 years old) and then judged himself. There are said to have been repeated arguments between the direct neighbors.

Opposite the

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, other neighbors talk about the disputes.

The 85-year-old perpetrator is said to have already planned to move into assisted living.

So the quarrels between them could have ended soon.

A local resident said to the

picture:

"He was angry about the neighbors' grandchildren playing and called the police several times." Another resident said: "It annoyed him that the couple allegedly ran naked through the garden and could be seen." Apparently there was also trouble because of trees that the couple wanted to cut down.

Then at some point the situation escalated.

Bienenbüttel: 85-year-old hunter shoots neighboring couple - police assume "instantaneous action".

Update from June 12, 9:20 a.m

.: What exactly happened in the Bienenbüttel housing estate?

The exact connections are still unclear.

The neighbors are stunned.

Three people are dead. An 85-year-old with a hunting license is said to have shot the neighboring couple first, then himself.

The couple (61 and 62 years old) and the hunter were direct neighbours.

The relationship was less harmonious.

Again and again there should have been a dispute between the property neighbors.

Local residents describe the hunter as calm and peaceful, the picture

wants to

know.

So it was a decent man.

The couple apparently wanted to have trees felled on the property.

The pensioner was against it.

 "We are assuming an absolute short-sighted action," said police chief inspector Kai Richter on Saturday.

The residents were completely surprised and shocked.

"You couldn't imagine it, those involved had lived in the idyllic settlement for years," said Richter.

The police and public prosecutor's office have not yet confirmed whether the planned felling of the trees could have been the trigger.

The results of the autopsy on the bodies are expected to be available next week.

On Saturday, the extensive barriers in the former holiday home area of ​​Bienenbüttel were lifted.

Lower Saxony, Bargdorf: Police investigators work at the crime scene.

Three dead were found on neighboring residential properties near Bienenbüttel.

© Philipp Schulze/dpa +++ dpa picture radio +++

Dispute in “idyllic settlement” escalates: 85-year-old hunter shoots neighbor couple – new details known

Update from June 11, 4:07 p.m .:

 It is not the first time that the police have been called to the former holiday home complex with the extensive properties in Bienenbüttel in Lower Saxony.

So far, it has always been about verbal disputes between a hunter and a neighboring couple.

It escalated on Friday afternoon: according to the police's previous findings, the 85-year-old shot the 62-year-old neighbor and his 61-year-old wife with one of his guns.

"We assume that the man then directed himself with one of his legal firearms in the residential building," said police chief Kai Richter on Saturday.

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No other people were involved.

All three of those killed had gunshot wounds.

The public prosecutor's office was informed of all the results of the crime just a few kilometers south of Lüneburg.

There is a history of disputes between the neighbors, but these have not previously escalated.

The residents were completely surprised and shocked.

"You couldn't imagine it, those involved had lived in the idyllic settlement for years," said Richter.

"We are assuming an absolute knee-jerk action."

Neighborhood dispute in Bienenbüttel escalated: area was initially evacuated

A pastor provided pastoral care to the residents.

The rural area was initially evacuated, and emergency shelters were assigned to neighbors until they could return to their homes in the evening.

The Mayor of Bienenbüttel, Merlin Franke, was also very concerned, Richter said.

The police's crime scene work was largely completed during the night, and the bodies are now being examined by forensic experts.

The results of the autopsy are expected to be available next week.

The exact connections between what happened in the residential area in Bargdorf, a district of Bienenbüttel in the Uelzen district, are still unclear.

The suspect is a German.

He had a hunting license and is said to have owned several guns.

Neighborhood dispute in Bienenbüttel escalates: three dead – senior's legal firearms secured

That is why the police, according to their own statements, proceeded with a high degree of caution during the operation in the Lüneburg Heath.

Special police forces from Hamburg approached with an armored vehicle – as well as a special task force from Hanover.

Forensic pathologists from Hamburg came, and forensic technicians in white suits were also on duty.

The experts should reconstruct the course of the crime on the extensive property, said the police spokesman.

The senior's legal firearms were seized.

On Saturday, the extensive barriers were lifted, dog owners went for a walk with their animals in nature.

Few technicians were seen on the property.

Neighborhood dispute in Bienenbüttel escalates: three bodies found on neighboring properties

Update from June 10, 10:37 p.m .:

In the bloody clash between neighbors, the bodies of an 85-year-old property owner and the 62-year-old owner of the neighboring property and his 61-year-old wife were found on neighboring properties.

Little by little details of the crime are now known.

According to preliminary findings, the 85-year-old is said to have killed his neighbors, as a police spokesman said, according to dpa.

Then the man is said to have killed himself.

Neighborhood dispute apparently escalates: police find three bodies on neighboring properties

First report:

Bienenbüttel – Three dead people were found on neighboring residential properties in Bienenbüttel in Lower Saxony.

According to initial findings, there was a bloody altercation between neighbors, the police said on Friday evening.

Escalated neighborhood dispute in Bienenbüttel: Residents previously heard shots and screams in the residential area

Lower Saxony, Bargdorf: An armored police vehicle leaves the site.

Three dead were found on neighboring residential properties near Bienenbüttel.

© Philipp Schulze/dpa +++ dpa picture radio +++

The Lower Saxony town of Bienenbüttel has around 6,600 inhabitants.

A tragic event occurred on Friday in a residential area in Bargdorf, a district of Bienenbüttel in the Uelzen district.

According to initial findings, there was a bloody altercation between neighbors, the police said on Friday evening.

The police found three dead on neighboring residential properties.

These are the 85-year-old property owner and the 62-year-old owner of the neighboring property and his 61-year-old wife.

Local residents had previously heard screams and shots and informed the emergency services, the police said.

In cooperation with special forces from the Hamburg police and the special task force in Hanover, the rest of the property was secured and the residential building entered.

Since several firearms were permitted on the 85-year-old as a person entitled to hunt, the police officers acted with a high degree of caution.

In the course of the operation, the other two dead were found.

The investigations into the background are still ongoing, it was said

(dpa).

police car in action.

In the Lower Saxony town of Bienenbüttel, the emergency services found three dead people on neighboring properties (symbol image).

© IMAGO/photo booth / Gelhot

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Source: merkur

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