Wounded by a gunshot to the head Thursday evening during a shooting, the 15-year-old minor succumbed to his injury this Saturday, November 2. The shooting suspect is still being sought.
The 15-year-old teenager who was seriously injured by a gunshot to the head during a shooting Thursday evening in Poitiers died this Saturday, November 2 at midday, announced the Poitiers prosecutor, Cyril Lacombe.
The victim was hospitalized in a state of absolute emergency, his vital prognosis being in jeopardy. Four other minors aged 15 and 16 were injured by shots fired in front of a restaurant in the Couronneries district. A suspect is still being sought by investigators in this case linked to drug trafficking according to the authorities. His identity is still being verified, it would be “present for several weeks in the city”.
During a search Friday morning in a home he allegedly occupied, seven munitions of the same caliber as the eleven found at the scene of the shooting, as well as “partial elements of a disassembled weapon”, were seized by investigators.
“Unpublished episode”
Interior Minister Bruno Retailleau said Friday morning that the shooting was followed by a “brawl between rival gangs which involved several hundred people” came to the scene. The prefect of Vienne Jean-Marie Girier later had to clarify that not all of them had participated in the fight. According to the police and the prosecutor’s office, the scuffles only involved “50 to 60 people”, dispersed using three tear gas grenades. Reinforcements from the gendarmerie intervened and calm was restored around 11:30 p.m. Two witnesses present on site were attacked. “as being likely to know the identity of the shooter”, a third person “being designated by the clamor as being able to know the latter”, added the prosecutor.
The environmentalist mayor of Poitiers, Léonore Moncond’huy, for her part mentioned “an unprecedented episode” in the history of this town of around 90,000 inhabitants, which according to her “testifies to a fairly serious evolution in society”. On site Friday morning, she recalled that the Couronneries district had suffered from urban violence in the summer of 2023 after the death of young Nahel in the Paris region, its shopping center had in particular been set on fire.
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