Two elderly men, one 90 years old and the other 78 years old, were found dead at the first’s home last Friday in Saint-Joseph (Loire).
The autopsies of the two bodies discovered, as well as the technical operations carried out in the home by the Saint-Etienne Research Brigade and experts investigating the causes and circumstances of the fire which struck the home, show that “its owner , aged 90, initially killed his 78-year-old friend, with whom he attended the same sports shooting center, with a single shot from a 12 mm hunting rifle,” explains the Saint-Etienne prosecutor’s office. .
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“The motivation for this fatal shooting will never be known”
The nonagenarian “then organized and triggered a major device to set fire to his home before attempting to kill himself by shooting with the same weapon”, according to the public prosecutor of Saint-Etienne, David Charmatz. He adds that the person concerned ended up “in turn succumbing to cardiac arrest following the non-fatal injuries caused by the shooting and the fire he had started, due to his very precarious state of health” .
“The motivation for this fatal shooting will never be known, but it is possible that the shooter confused his friend who was visiting him with a potential burglar,” said David Charmatz. “The deaths date back to the end of the day of December 4, the day of the visits that the murder victim made to his friend,” specifies the Saint-Etienne prosecutor’s office.
He explained that deminers had been sent to the isolated house where the tragedy occurred “to avoid putting investigators at any risk, given the circumstances and the personality of the owner, a former military survivalist and enthusiast of weapons.”
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