Overview
- A family dispute at a Brockskamp residence in Gelsenkirchen escalated into a knife attack in which a 49-year-old man allegedly injured his 37-year-old life partner and was arrested at the scene.
- Relatives and emergency responders gave first aid and a rescue ambulance took the injured partner to hospital, where officials say her condition is not life-threatening.
- Police established a Mordkommission under the direction of the Staatsanwaltschaft Essen to investigate the incident as a suspected attempted killing.
- The public prosecutor applied for Untersuchungshaft, the Amtsgericht in Essen approved pretrial detention, and the suspect is being transferred to a correctional facility.
- Officers are also probing a separate incident at Gelsenkirchen Hauptbahnhof in which irritant gas was sprayed in a venue and several people were taken to hospital; that enquiry is continuing and may be unrelated.