By Matthias Lukashevich
The mystery of the murder in Wilhelmstadt has been solved! It goes back to a dispute about the perpetrator’s apartment. This was announced by the Attorney General’s Office.
The bloody deed happened on Saturday on a water property on the Havel. There, Dieter St. (79) shot Dennis P. (38) in cold blood in his granny flat in an outbuilding.
► Reason: Dennis P. had been the owner of the “Havel Logen” boat rental since the spring, together with his business partner Karsten K. (36). But the senior continued to live on the premises.
One of the two dead is taken away by employees of the coroner’s office Photo: Spreepicture
And that should now change: Dennis P. wanted to tell Dieter St. that a new apartment had been found for him and that the lease was ready to be signed.
The fact that the elderly gentleman had to vacate the coach house in which he had apparently lived for decades was not the decision of the new owners!
The building authorities had classified the coach house next to the main house as an “unapproved extension”. It should have been demolished in the course of the planned conversion of the site.
Boat rental Dennis P. (38) was shot on the Havel Photo: private
For Dieter St., a world apparently collapsed at that moment – he went completely nuts! He shot Dennis P. five times with a pistol! For him any help came too late.
He had been living on the top floor of the main house for a few weeks – together with his heavily pregnant girlfriend Mandy. She was unharmed.
But Dieter St. didn’t have enough after the first murder: he also wanted to kill the other new owner! Senior public prosecutor Sebastian Büchner, spokesman for the general public prosecutor’s office: “He lured the 36-year-old business partner of the dead man into the apartment under a pretext.”
But Karsten K. saw his buddy on the floor in a pool of blood when he came into the apartment. He managed to escape and immediately alerted the police.
Large-scale operation for the police on Saturday: shots were fired on Heerstrasse, dozens of officers moved in Photo: Spreepicture
Meanwhile, Dieter St. poured out gasoline in his apartment and set it on fire. He died in the fire.
Particularly tragic: “In the run-up there was no dispute or threats in this direction,” said Chief Public Prosecutor Büchner. So the two business partners had no idea of the resentment of their murderous lodger.