Oujda: Police officers forced to use their service weapon to neutralize a suspect for intentional homicide
Rabat – Elements of the Oujda police headquarters were forced, on Sunday, to use their service weapon during a security operation intended to arrest a 42-year-old individual, suspected of being involved in intentional homicides and attempted intentional homicide against four women from the same family.
According to the first elements of the investigation, the suspect would have accessed the home of his neighbors, for no apparent or logical reason, at least at this stage of the investigation, killing three women aged 76, 45 and 19 with a knife. years old, and injuring a fourth victim, indicates a press release from the General Directorate of National Security (DGSN).
The police elements who intervened to neutralize the suspect, who was in an impulsive state and had barricaded himself in the victims’ house, were forced to use their service weapon, firing two warning bullets into the air, before targeting the suspect’s lower limbs with four other bullets, according to the same source.
The three remains were transferred to the morgue for autopsy, while the fourth victim was admitted to the hospital, adds the DGSN, indicating that the accused was placed under medical supervision at the hospital in the waiting for his state of health to stabilize so that he can be subject to the investigation procedures ordered by the competent public prosecutor’s office, in order to elucidate the motives and circumstances of these criminal acts.
2024-10-02 10:29:30