A 26-year-old man was shot dead in a
“settling of scores”
on the night of Friday February 16 to Saturday February 17 in the middle of the street in Saint-Martin-d'Hères (Isère), said the Grenoble prosecutor.
The victim was unfavorably known to the police and the courts,
“in particular for drug trafficking
,” said Éric Vaillant in a press release on Saturday.
The events took place around 3 a.m.
Warned by calls to 17, the firefighters and the police found the man face down, on the sidewalk, with
“a significant wound in the back”
, caused by a
“hunting weapon type”
shot .
Burned car, charred shotgun
According to testimony, the man was targeted while he was walking his dog, from a vehicle with several people on board, the magistrate reported.
Several shots were fired.
A burned car was found shortly after, in the same town, and a “partially charred”
shotgun
was discovered, which may correspond to the ammunition found.
The investigation was entrusted to the organized and specialized crime division of Grenoble (formerly the judicial police).