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42-Year-Old Surrenders After Fatal Assault in Berlin-Mitte Apartment

The suspect is to be presented to a magistrate on Sunday for a detention decision under an ongoing homicide probe.

Overview

  • Police say the man walked into a nearby precinct at midday Saturday and reported injuring another person.
  • Officers found a 48-year-old unresponsive in an apartment on Leipziger Straße, and a doctor pronounced him dead despite resuscitation attempts.
  • A police spokesperson reported multiple injuries to the victim’s upper body, with further details withheld for investigative reasons.
  • Berlin’s 8th Homicide Commission has taken over the case, and crime-scene technicians are securing and measuring the apartment.
  • Authorities have not disclosed a motive or any relationship between the men, and the suspect remains in custody pending the magistrate’s decision.