Overview
- Police say a witness reported a loud argument around 7 p.m. Saturday at a multi-family building on Materborner Allee in Kleve’s Materborn district.
- The witness then observed a person lying motionless on a balcony, and responders later found a 74-year-old woman dead.
- Officers detained the victim’s 42-year-old son at the scene on suspicion of killing her.
- On the prosecutor’s application, an investigative judge ordered pre-trial detention pending further inquiries.
- Krefeld’s criminal police and the Kleve prosecutor’s office are investigating, with the exact cause of death and motive not yet public.