Overview

• Lower Saxony’s health ministry confirmed the 31-year-old suspect sought outpatient psychiatric care in Göttingen on August 10 and left against medical advice after clinicians found keine akute Fremd- oder Eigengefährdung.
• Prosecutors in Göttingen report DNA traces of the suspect on the victim’s shoulder; he is held under a court-ordered psychiatric detention on suspicion of homicide and has a prior diagnosis of paranoid schizophrenia.
• BAMF deemed his German asylum claim inadmissible in December 2022 and ordered transfer to Lithuania, with the removal enforceable since March 18, 2025, yet a July bid for deportation detention was rejected by the Amtsgericht Hannover.
• New reporting cites three prior proceedings: a 2022 bodily-harm case later dropped, a 2024 exhibitionism conviction that led to a short Ersatzfreiheitsstrafe, and a 2025 stalking probe later dropped, with multiple aliases hindering record linkage.
• Police say on the day of the incident he tried to ride a bus in Einbeck without a ticket and acted aggressively at the town hall, and after the teen’s death he turned aggressive at the Friedland reception center; state lawmakers reviewed the case as opposition criticized the interior minister’s absence and parties split over claims of agency failings.