During the day and in the city center. A man was shot dead this Friday afternoon in Petit-Quevilly (Seine-Maritime) near Rouen, during an altercation with another man who fled, we learned Saturday from judicial and police sources.
The 36-year-old victim was killed by two bullets fired at close range in the street. The man died when arriving at the emergency room of the hospital of the commune, told AFP a police source.
The shooter still at large
The gunman was still at large Saturday and investigators had not made any arrests by midday, the judicial source added.
According to the daily Paris-Normandie, which quotes several witnesses, the two men knew each other and shouted at each other, for an unspecified reason, near a tram stop in the street.
One of them allegedly pulled out a pistol and fired in the air but the other provoked him and received two bullets at close range, according to a witness quoted by the regional daily. The gunman then allegedly fled on foot.
