On Sunday morning, a 23-year-old man killed a woman with an axe in a flat in Löwenberger Straße. According to police spokesman Stefan Petersen, the crime took place on the ninth floor of a flat in a ten-storey prefab building in the Lichtenberg district of Berlin, which was built in the 1970s. The Berlin police announced on Sunday afternoon that the dead woman was a 27-year-old Ukrainian. According to a police spokesperson, the crime happened at around 7.40 a.m. in Löwenberger Straße. When the police arrived, the man was beating the woman with an axe. The officers then shot at the 23-year-old Kosovar. He was fatally shot.
According to eyewitnesses, the man and the woman had been arguing loudly. Neighbours called the police. “There is yelling in the block from time to time,” said a tenant. The woman died of her injuries at the scene. Police spokesman Stefan Petersen-Schühmann told the newspaper Berliner Zeitung that the flat was a “gruesome scene”. A homicide squad is investigating.
An immediate neighbour said that he heard screaming at around 7 am. The man hit the woman with an axe, then went down the corridor with it and damaged doors. One of the flat doors was covered in blood.