Gunfire in Darmstadt: police find stolen property during investigation

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In which Police operation after the escalation on Parkstrasse in Kranichstein initially nine people were arrested. During the inspections, five of them were “not sufficiently suspicious”, so that these men and women were released, it was said. With five apartment searches in the two Darmstadt Neighborhoods Kranichstein and Wixhausen as well as in Griesheim (district Darmstadt-Dieburg) provided the police In addition, extensive alleged stolen goods are safe – including navigation devices and clothing that still had the anti-theft devices on them. In addition, the officers secured two firearms and two empty gun cases. At the scene of the crime, the investigators found a crowbar in a shrubbery, which is said to be a suspected hammer. The firearm was not found. The police called witnesses, pictures and videos to be transmitted via the online portal.

Darmstadt: Shots in Kranichstein – backgrounds come to light

+++ Update from Friday, May 8th, 2020, 3:09 pm: After the Shots on Parkstrasse in Darmstadt there are new developments. The prosecutor has applied for custody of three men. The three prosecutors, 56, 32 and 27-year-old men from Griesheim and Kranichstein are being investigated for attempted killing, the prosecutor and police say. The injured are 29, 31, 35 and 58 years old. Even the background of the Shots in Darmstadt is slowly becoming clearer: All those involved belonged to two families, which have probably had a custody dispute for years.

The police made several accidental finds during five apartment searches in Kranichstein, Wixhausen and Griesheim that were carried out at night and continued on Friday morning (May 8, 2020). It secured extensive alleged stolen property. These include numerous navigation devices that have already been assigned to individual crimes. Investigators also found large amounts of clothing with the anti-theft devices on. In addition, the officers secured two firearms and two empty gun cases.

Gunfire in Darmstadt: Police search for crime weapon at the scene

The search for evidence at the scene of the crime ended on Friday afternoon Shots in Darmstadt. Here the large-scale search for the murder weapons had continued in the morning. In this context, the investigators found a crowbar in an adjacent shrubbery, which can be used as a suspected striking tool and was secured as evidence. The area was cordoned off for the duration of the search. So far there is no trace of the murder weapon. The search measures for this continue.

Update from Friday May 8th, 2020, 12:33 pm: The Darmstadt police are looking for witnesses in the Investigation can provide information about the shots in Parkstrasse. Above all, what is sought Witnesseswho took pictures or videos of what happened. The Police have a website for the transmission of the data set up.

Gunfire in Darmstadt: Investigators give new details

Update from Friday, May 8th, 2020, 11.17am: There are new details about the shots in Darmstadt: the six Arrests On Friday at the request of the Frankfurter Rundschau, Chief Prosecutor Robert Hartmann, the spokesman for the public prosecutor’s office at the Darmstadt Regional Court, said on Friday that the two women who had been arrested on Thursday evening had not been detained during the night. The Investigators want to get a closer overview of the situation in the next few hours, according to Hartmann.

For the afternoon, the spokesman for the Darmstadt public prosecutor’s office announced another press release. This would also include the question of whether and – if so – against whom of the four alleged Suspect between the ages of 24 and 56 an application for a pre-trial detention order from the public prosecutor’s office. Of the Murder weapon there is still no trace, said the chief prosecutor.

Darmstadt: Gunfire in Kranichstein – man arrested

Update from Friday, May 8th, 2020, 6.40am: After shots near the train station from Darmstadt-Kranichstein a fourth suspect has been arrested. The Darmstadt public prosecutor and a spokeswoman for the police headquarters in South Hesse announced this on Friday night in a joint announcement. The four suspected arrested Suspect be 24, 27, 32 and 56 years old.

At the same time, the investigators corrected earlier information on the injuries of three men: two and not three men were shot on Tuesday afternoon in the shots on Kranichsteiner Parkstrasse. A third man is with one Truncheon get hurt. The injured were 29, 31 and 35 years old. All three are excepted risk of death, it was said in the night to Friday. As it turned out later, a 58-year-old man also suffered minor injuries in the conflict and was killed in the Darmstadt Clinic treated.

Large-scale operation in Darmstadt: four injured and four suspects arrested

Shortly after the fact, according to police and prosecutor at two Vehicle controls three men are arrested in Büttelborn and Darmstadt. Two women were arrested in Griesheim on Thursday evening and another man on Parkstrasse in Kranichstein.

In the course of the further Investigation then took place according to the joint communication from police and Public prosecutor Searches in Griesheim as in Kranichstein, in which a special task force was also used as a support. The Murder weaponAt first, the investigators could not find the person who was shooting.

The investigators in Darmstadt assume that “prolonged disputes” between two families who are related to each other triggered the violent conflict. It is still unclear which of the arrested how exactly on the did was involved in detail. The investigators initially did not provide any information on the nationality of the participants.

Update from Thursday, May 7th, 2020, 8:35 pm: The investigation continues. The police is currently securing traces at the crime scene and interviewing witnesses to the incident. A Murder weapon could not yet be ensured. All previous investigations point to disputes between two families. To what extent other people were injured in the conflict is still unclear.

After a shootout, three suspects were arrested in Darmstadt

Update from May 7th, 2020, 8:25 pm: After a shootout near the train station in Darmstadt district of Kranichstein The police arrested three suspects during several vehicle inspections. “To what extent these are connected with the fact requires further investigation,” said a spokeswoman for the police on Thursday (07.05.2020). The search continues. So far, there is no further information on the age, gender or origin of the suspects.

Gunfire in Darmstadt: two men were seriously injured

Three men were taken care of by paramedics and taken to hospitals. According to further information, two of the men are currently in mortal danger.