“German kills wife and twin sister, then kills brother-in-law and commits suicide” | Abroad

As dusk fell on Friday, the first gunshots rang out. A local resident found a seriously injured man in the front yard of a sand-colored plastered house.

The 60-year-old man was still approachable when the first officers arrived at the scene. Shortly afterwards he died from his gunshot wounds, according to a statement on the website of the police station in Oberbayern Süd (the district that Weilheim falls under; ed.).

After the man was found, the officers with extra support started the hunt for the suspected perpetrator. The search initially turned up nothing. At around 7:15 p.m., another local resident said he had found a lifeless man on a park bench. The man died before officers found him. A weapon was found next to his body.

Two more women were found dead during a search of his home. An emergency doctor determined that both victims had been killed after severe physical violence. They are twins (57), according to the German newspaper ‘Bild’. One of the two women was married to the suspected perpetrator.

Motive
The exact cause of the murder is unclear, but the police suspect that the 59-year-old man first killed the two women. He then killed his brother-in-law (60) and committed suicide. The police are still undecided about the motive for the family murder. The exact cause of death of the twins is also still unknown. The autopsy will take place on Monday. Police assume the murders were premeditated.

Yesterday afternoon everything seemed as usual in Weilheim, writes the daily newspaper ‘Süddeutsche Zeitung’. There was only a police car in front of the suspect’s house. The three dead are commemorated with flowers and candles.

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