Shot at woman in Gmunden district: suspected perpetrator discovered dead

The woman was able to escape to the police station after the attack and her life was out of danger on Saturday morning, a police spokesman told APA. Shortly afterwards the man was found dead by the Cobra in the garage of the house. He committed suicide.

The 72-year-old is said to have first threatened his ex-wife and then carried out his threat. The man shot the 62-year-old woman several times with a rifle, hitting her once. “The woman was seriously injured by a gunshot,” said police spokesman Michael Babl. The woman was taken to hospital. She was questioned on Saturday; details of the interrogation were not initially known. The woman and the man had apparently already separated, and the crime scene was probably the woman’s place of residence. It was not known whether the 72-year-old had also lived in the house and how long the two had been living apart.

Shortly after the crime, it was unclear whether the man was still in the house or was trying to escape. An alarm search was initiated. All available police patrols were deployed, critical points were occupied and traffic controls were carried out. In addition, the Cobra task force, the air police and the police rapid response group were in action. The house was surrounded. The Cobra found the man dead in the garage shortly before Saturday afternoon.

The Ministry of Health’s suicide prevention portal offers help for people with suicidal thoughts and their relatives. Contact details for aid organizations in Austria can be found at www.suicide-prevention.gv.at. Information for young people is available at www.bittelebe.at

In Austria, women who experience violence can find help and information at the women’s hotline: 0800-222-555, www.frauenhelpline.at; at the Autonomous Austrian Women’s Shelters (AÖF). www.aoef.atas well as the women’s shelter emergency number: 057722 and the Austrian violence protection centers: 0800/700-217, https://www.violentprotectioncenter.at/at the police emergency number: 133, and in Upper Austria at the Autonomous Women’s Center – Women’s Emergency Number Upper Austria on 0732/602200

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