Which reports the daily newspaper Tubantia. The suspect was shot by police yesterday when he threatened to shoot people with a crossbow from his balcony. The shot that knocked him out would have hit him in the chest.
‘To the bone’
He had previously stabbed the two victims, women aged 70 and 52. The stabbing ‘went through the marrow’, a local resident told RTL Nieuws today: “At first there was a terrible screaming and whining. As if a suckling pig was skinned alive. Then there was literally a deathly silence. And that was even more frightening.”
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A third person, a 33-year-old woman from the municipality of Rijssen, was also injured in the incident. She has been hospitalized.
The police investigation is in full swing. The incident caused a lot of unrest in the area. Mayor Arjen Gerritsen said yesterday that the incident has made a ‘major impact’ in Almelo.
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