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Lithuanian police search for man suspected of kiling his family

BC, Vilnius, 28.03.2017.Print version

A manhunt is underway for a 27-year-old man suspected of fatally shooting four members of his family and wounding another in their home in the village of Gaizenai in the district of Kaunas, reports LETA/BNS.


The man's mother, father, grandmother and father's brother were found dead on Monday evening. His great-grandfather was found with a gunshot wound in his leg. Experts say that they were probably killed before Monday.

 

The suspect, who is possibly armed, was not found as of Tuesday morning.

Police found two guns in a locked safe in the family's house and another safe that was opened and empty.

 

The bodies of the suspect's father, born in 1967, mother, born in 1968, grandmother, born in 1942, and father's brother, born in 1979, were found at 5:45 p.m. on Monday. His wounded great-grandfather was taken to a hospital in a state of shock.

 

Lithuania's authorities have launched an international search for a 27-year-old man suspected of fatally shooting four members of his family, a spokesman for the Police Department Ramunas Matonis said on Tuesday morning.

 

The suspect was put on the international wanted list on Monday evening,.

 

Police have expanded their manhunt for the suspect, who is possibly armed, to other districts of Lithuania after forensic experts at the murder scene established that the shooting had occurred before Monday.

 





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