Overview
- A fire broke out in a top-floor apartment in Breitbrunn am Chiemsee on Tuesday evening, October 20, and one man was found dead in the flat.
- A neighbouring resident entered the building and largely extinguished the flames before firefighters arrived but a person inside could not be saved.
- The Kriminalpolizeiinspektion Rosenheim has taken over the criminal probe and says formal identification of the victim is still pending.
- The official Stick Run team named the developer Marc‑Manuel Alexander Otto as the deceased and said the incident was learned of from a Twitch livestream that the platform has since removed.
- Police estimate property damage in the mid five-figure euro range and report the first aider suffered a minor smoke inhalation while the game’s large international audience has driven public attention to the investigation.