Overview

• Harrowing CCTV published by NewsX shows the assailant enter the private hospital with a bag, confront his ex-wife in her office, chase her, and fire three shots on a stairwell.
• The victim was identified as Eser Karaca, 42, a mother of two who worked as a medical secretary in Kahramanmaraş.
• Staff rushed her into the hospital’s emergency room, where she was pronounced dead from her wounds.
• Police arrested 44-year-old Atilla Ayintapli shortly after the May shooting; he has since been indicted and prosecutors are seeking life imprisonment as he awaits trial.
• Reports say Karaca had obtained a restraining order earlier that day; some outlets also cite a confession and an additional charge of threatening a coworker with a weapon.