Toulouse: a 15-year-old teenager shot dead in a working-class neighborhood in the north of the city


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11:36 p.m., January 7, 2024

A 15-year-old boy died of his injuries this Sunday. The victim was found by firefighters, seriously injured with a gunshot to the head, on Saturday afternoon. At least six people were taken into custody, including a young man, this Sunday, who could be the shooter.

A teenager died on Sunday evening after being found seriously injured by a gunshot to the head on Saturday, in a working-class neighborhood in the north of Toulouse, we learned from a judicial and police source.

Two people were arrested

According to a police source, the 15-year-old victim was found early Saturday afternoon by firefighters in the Izards district, a part of the city which had been marked in 2020 by several shootings linked to drug trafficking. . The victim died Sunday evening, according to a judicial source. Still between life and death, the young man was taken to hospital on Saturday while a little later in the afternoon, that day, police were called to the Matabiau station area by a local resident who had heard a gunshot and discovered traces of blood, according to a police source.

On site, two people were arrested as they tried to leave an apartment, investigators managing to link these new elements with the victim who could have been transported from this apartment to Izards. In total, at least six people were taken into custody this weekend, including on Sunday a young man who could be the shooter, according to the same source.



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