A 25-year-old man from Satu Mare county is accused of killing a man because he caught him stealing. The man, together with two other accomplices, allegedly wanted to take a duck from a neighbor’s yard. Because he was caught in the act by the owner of the household, the young man would have rushed at the victim, whom he hit several times with a brick, but also with his foot in the head. He then ran away, and the victim died after him, due to the blows he received, he writes SM socket.
Everything happened on Saturday evening, in the village of Trip, in Satu Mare county. The 25-year-old wanted to steal a duck, investigators say.
“The administered evidence shows that, in the evening of 18.02.2023, the defendant LF, accompanied by the suspects SD and LM, while intoxicated, went to the residence of the victim TI in the town of Trip with the intention of stealing a duck. The defendant LF climbed the fence of the building, being surprised and recognized by the victim who was alerted by the domestic animals”, reports the Prosecutor’s Office attached to the Satu Mare Court.
The two accomplices managed to escape. Caught in the act and recognized by the owner, the young man took a brick and attacked the 62-year-old man. After repeatedly hitting him in the head with both the brick and the foot, the assailant ran away.
“The suspects, scared, left the scene of the crime, and the defendant, in order to evade criminal liability, hit the victim multiple times with a brick and with his foot in the head area, causing an acute cranio-facial trauma that led at her death”, say the prosecutors.
The same evening the man was found dead in the yard of the house. It was the neighbors who alerted the authorities. Three days later, the perpetrator of the crime was caught and detained by the police, and the prosecutors are asking for his preventive arrest.
Editor: Izabela Zaharia
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