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An 86-year-old woman has died, and two others, aged 83 and 81, have been injured in a knife attack at St Vitus-Stift retirement home in Germany’s Münsterland region. The assailant, a 72-year-old man, surrendered to police after the attack, and authorities are now investigating the incident.
A homicide unit is investigating the incident, with the assailant currently hospitalised under police guard prior to a court appearance. St Vitus-Stift retirement home accommodates 77 elderly residents, while the broader facility includes 36 assisted living apartments and group homes for dementia care.
The local police have launched a homicide investigation into the stabbing incident at St Vitus-Stiff retirement home, and the assailant has been admitted to a psychiatric hospital under police guard. The affected residents’ conditions have stabilised, and a legal proceeding is expected to follow as the suspect faces a judge.
What remains unclear — The nature of the relationship between the assailant and the victims, as well as the source of the knife used in the attack, has not been established.
Pensioner dies in care home attack as two others are injured in Germany
A resident at St Vitus-Stiff retirement home launched a violent attack on three women (Picture: Facebook/St. Vitus Stift Olfen)
An 86-year-old woman has died, and two others, also in their 80s, have been injured after a knife attack at a care home.
On Friday, residents of St Vitus-Stiff retirement home in Germany’s Münsterland region sat together eating dinner around 7pm, as they did on any normal evening.
But their mundane evening turned into horror when a 72-year-old man violently assaulted three fellow residents.
The unnamed man, who uses a wheelchair, is reported to have stabbed one person in the neck before continuing his rampage.
Police discovered the 86-year-old in the canteen. She was pronounced dead at the scene, having sustained severe stab wounds.
An 83-year-old resident was taken to hospital and fought for her life overnight.
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An 86-year-old woman was killed, and two others were severely injured (Picture: Facebook/St. Vitus Stift Olfen)
By this morning, police said her condition had stabilised.
A third resident, aged 81, was seriously injured and remains hospitalised in North Rhine-Westphalia.
As reported by Bild, two rescue helicopters arrived at the care home and airlifted both injured women to the University Hospital.
Following his stabbing spree, the assailant is said to have returned to his room at the home before surrendering without resistance.
A homicide unit is now investigating the incident.
It is currently unclear what the nature of the man’s relationship with the three women was, nor is it known where the knife came from.
He told investigators afterwards that he washed the weapon and placed it in a drawer, which is where officers found it.
Local media added that the man told police he felt ‘bullied’ for several years, reportedly seeking ‘revenge’ on other residents.
He has been admitted to a psychiatric hospital and is under police guard before appearing in front of a judge today.
St Vitus-Stiff houses 77 elderly people with various health impairments who need care.
The building is attached to an assisted living facility comprising 36 barrier-free apartments, while group homes onsite house residents with dementia.
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October 12, 2024
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‘Cheer up, you caught the bad guy,’ says killer Virginia McCullough as she is arrested for murdering her parents
A woman who murdered her parents “in cold blood” before hiding them in makeshift tombs for four years told officers to “cheer up, you caught the bad guy” as she was arrested in her home.
Virginia McCullough, 36, poisoned her father John McCullough, 70, with prescription medication and fatally stabbed her mother Lois McCullough, 71, shortly afterwards in 2019.
She ran up large debts on credit cards in her parents’ names and after their deaths, she continued to spend their pensions until she was finally caught in 2023.
In body-worn video footage released by police, a handcuffed – and eerily calm – McCullough told officers: “I did know that this would kind of come eventually.
“It’s proper that I serve my punishment.”
She said she had slipped something into her father’s drink then put his body under a bed on the ground floor, and put her mother’s body in an upstairs wardrobe.
McCullough, having been arrested on suspicion of double murder, told an officer: “Cheer up, at least you’ve caught the bad guy.”
She added: “I know I don’t seem 100% evil.”
At the police station, she told officers where a kitchen knife was, which she described as a “murder weapon”, and a hammer which she said “will still have blood on it”.
McCullough, of Pump Hill, Chelmsford, Essex, was sentenced to life imprisonment on Friday with a minimum term of 36 years at Chelmsford Crown Court, after she admitted to their murders between 17 and 20 June 2019 at an earlier hearing at the same court.
Chelmsford Crown Court heard how she hid their bodies in makeshift tombs at the family home in Great Baddow in Essex, then told persistent lies to cover her tracks.
The court heard she cancelled family arrangements and frequently told doctors and relatives her parents were unwell, on holiday or away on lengthy trips.
But concerns over Mr and Mrs McCullough’s welfare were raised in September 2023 by a GP at their registered practice, and Essex County Council’s safeguarding team referred these to police.
The GP had not seen the couple for some time and said Mr McCullough had failed to collect medication and attend scheduled appointments. It was found McCullough had frequently cancelled appointments, using a range of excuses to explain her father’s absence.
Police said a missing persons investigation was initially launched and McCullough lied to officers, claiming her parents were travelling and would be returning in October.
It became a murder investigation, and when officers forced entry to the house in Pump Hill on September 15 2023, McCullough confessed that her parents’ bodies were in the house and that she had killed them.
Nicola Rice, a specialist prosecutor for the Crown Prosecution Service, said: “McCullough callously and viciously killed both of her parents before concealing their bodies in makeshift tombs within their home address.
“She spent the next four years manipulating and lying to family members, medical staff, financial institutions, and the police, spending her parents’ money and accruing large debts in their name.”
She added: “This was a truly disturbing case, which has left behind it a trail of devastation, and I can only hope that the sentence passed today will help those who loved and cared for Lois and John begin to heal.”
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Defense alliance NATO chief Mark Rutte has met US President-elect Donald Trump to discuss global security issues, according to a NATO spokesperson.
The meeting took place in Palm Beach, Florida.
During his first term as US president, 2017-2020, Trump pushed for European NATO countries to spend more on defense and described the alliance’s cost-sharing as unfair to the US.
Rutte took over as NATO chief from Norwegian Jens Stoltenberg in November.
Before taking office in January, Trump has nominated Pete Hegseth for the post of defense secretary, which has raised eyebrows among many allies.
Hegseth, 44, has served as an infantry captain in Iraq and Afghanistan, but has no senior military or government officer experience.
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Multiple missiles were fired in an airstrike towards a densely populated part of Lebanon’s capital early on Saturday.
The huge airstrike targeted Beirut’s Basta neighbourhood, and no prior warnings were given by the Israeli military. The largely residential area was struck last month.
At least one violent explosion was heard across the city, Reuters witnesses said, and plumes of smoke could be seen. Scenes of massive destruction at the site were shared online, including a massive crater in the ground.
“Beirut, the capital, woke up to a horrific massacre, as the Israeli enemy’s air force completely destroyed an eight-story residential building with five missiles on Al-Mamoun Street in Basta,” the state-run National News Agency reported.
The health ministry put the initial death toll at four, with 23 wounded. The number is expected to climb in the coming hours as search and rescue efforts continue.
It came after a long day of Israeli airstrikes on Beirut’s southern suburbs, which have been non-stop since last week.
The cross-border fighting between Israel and the Iran-backed Hezbollah militant group escalated into a full-blown war in mid-September.
Israel has bombed southern Lebanon, Beirut’s southern suburbs and the eastern Beqaa region, and has sent ground troops across the border. Hezbollah has continued to fire rockets deeper into Israel.
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