Overview
- The regional court convicted the 24-year-old of manslaughter and illegal weapons possession and reserved, but did not impose, preventive detention.
- Prosecutors argued he sought to recover about €5,000 after an alleged money-washing scam, with the court finding he lay in wait near the central station.
- According to the judgment, the victim fled into an Uber, the car was pursued, and the shooter fired four times through a side window at a red light.
- Evidence cited included camera recordings of the attack, hotel videos showing the defendant with the victim two days earlier, gunshot residue on the defendant’s jacket, and the crime weapon found at his uncle’s home bearing his DNA.
- Defense lawyers highlighted a mismatch between the Uber driver’s description of the shooter and the defendant’s appearance, but the court relied on an exclusion analysis and discounted the driver’s identification as undifferentiated.