He would not have succumbed to the bursts of bullets but to a stab wound.
The Lyon prosecutor's office has delivered the first elements of the investigation for "murder in an organized gang" after the shooting that killed one Tuesday around 5 p.m. in Écully (Rhône).
According to the provisional report of the autopsy carried out on Thursday, the 32-year-old man who fell at the foot of tower 32 in the Sources district died of a stab wound.
Seriously injured when help arrived, he could not be saved.
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A knife fight before the shooting
“A brawl during which one or more bladed weapons could have been used
would thus have preceded the shooting
, explains the prosecution in a press release Thursday afternoon.
Shots were then fired from a vehicle shortly after the group dispersed.
The perpetrators of the crime are still at large and actively sought.
