47-year-old Swiss man shot dead! German arrested
Gebenstorf (Switzerland) - Horrific incident near the German border! Late Monday evening, a dead man (†47) was found in the Swiss municipality of Gebenstorf. The body of the deceased had several gunshot wounds. Investigators quickly zeroed in on a German man (51) and he was arrested on Tuesday.
As the cantonal police of the northern canton of Aargau announced on Tuesday, the officers were alerted at around 11 p.m. on Monday about a dead person in the village of Vogelsang - around 20 kilometers south of the German border.
The police and emergency services immediately set out, but were only able to determine the death of the 47-year-old at the scene. The cantonal police immediately began an investigation, in which the public prosecutor's office is now also involved.
The deceased had apparently been executed by several shots. The alleged perpetrator was identified just a few hours later - a 51-year-old man from Germany became the suspect!
The man was arrested in the early hours of Tuesday morning.
German allegedly shot 47-year-old man: Motive still unclear
As reported by the Aargauer Zeitung, the fatal incident took place in an industrial building in Vogelsang. The forensics team was on site with two employees on Tuesday and the situation in the area was calm.
"I arrived at around 6 a.m. today. Two employees who had been working at night said that the police came in at around 1.30 am and asked if they had heard or seen anything," an employee of a company near the crime scene told the local newspaper.
The police had looked around the entire company premises and checked the employees of the neighboring company.
The motive of the suspected perpetrator initially remained as unclear as the circumstances. It is still unclear whether the two men knew each other. The cantonal police did not provide any further details on Tuesday.