A man in his fifties was shot dead, at close range, while he was driving his car on Tuesday in Doubs, and the perpetrator fled, it was reported. learned from the Montbéliard prosecutor.
Tuesday around 2:30 p.m., an armed individual on foot approached a motorist who was driving in the town center of Allezcourt, near Montbéliard, and fired.
“He hit him at point blank range by shooting at the driver’s window,” declared to AFP the public prosecutor Paul-Edouard Lallois, who went to the crime scene.
“The car traveled several hundred meters before stopping on a sidewalk,” he clarified. The gunshot-wound driver, aged 54 according to firefighters, was conscious when help arrived, but he quickly died at the scene.
Losing control of his car, he hit another vehicle driven by a 50-year-old woman, who was slightly injured, firefighters said.
The shooter has “fled in his vehicle which was parked nearby”, he is actively sought by the police, said the prosecutor.
The investigation was entrusted to the Montbéliard police station and the interdepartmental judicial police service (SIPJ) of Besançon.
