Shocking tragedy in Hockenheim: child corpses found in apartment - suspected homicide against 43-year-old

Hockenheim / Rhein-Neckar-Kreis (ots) A 9-year-old and a 7-year-old child were found dead in an apartment in Luisenstraße. The Mannheim Public Prosecutor's Office and the Department of Capital Crimes of the Mannheim Criminal Investigation Department, with the assistance of the Central Criminal Investigation Department of the Heidelberg Criminal Investigation Department and the Institute of Forensic Medicine of the University of Heidelberg, have taken up further investigations against a 43-year-old relative on suspicion of a homicide. The suspect was arrested provisionally at the scene of the crime. An autopsy was ordered to determine the exact cause of death. The results are still pending at the time of reporting. The investigations of the public prosecutor's office Mannheim and the department for capital crimes of the criminal commissariat Mannheim, in particular to the exact course of events, continue at present.