Switzerland. 39-year-old Pole fatally shot in Wohlen, Switzerland

The tragedy occurred on Sunday in the town of Wohlen in northern Switzerland. Police, notified of the incident after 10 a.m., found a body in the stairwell of an apartment building on Villmergerstrasse. The victim was identified as a 39-year-old Pole, the police said in a press release. His seven-year-old child also suffered a gunshot wound and was taken to hospital. “Fortunately, the child's life is no longer in danger,” the release reads.

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Officers at the scene arrested the alleged perpetrator: a 40-year-old Swiss man living at the same address. His motives and circumstances of the murder remain unclear. The police of the canton of Aargau and the public prosecutor's office have opened an investigation into the case.

Adrian Bieri, spokesman for the Aargau police, provided details about the tragedy in a conversation with the media. He said that the murdered man worked as a caretaker in the building where he lived. “The daughter had to watch from up close as her father was shot,” Bieri told the Blick portal.

Blick also reached out to a resident of the block who “knew” the 39-year-old “well.” “There were never any quarrels in this house. I can't explain what happened,” the woman said, emphasizing that she was “in shock.” “Suddenly, several shots rang out. Then only screams. It was terrible,” the victim's neighbor reported. She added that his wife and second child left the apartment. “My wife simply screamed. My son called for his daddy,” the woman said. Another neighbor told the media that the 39-year-old's son ran out into the street right after the shots were fired, screaming “someone's killing my father.”

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