A 17-year-old boy who fatally wounded a 14-year-old girl and seriously wounded a 20-year-old man who rushed to his aid in a botanical garden in Craiova was arrested. The aggressor is the son of a policeman and a student of the Military College in Craiova.

On Wednesday morning, the perpetrator was arrested for murder and attempted murder, taken to the detention and preventive detention center of Dolj police, and will be offered preventive detention during the day.

Tragedy movie

It all happened on Tuesday afternoon, around 4:00 p.m., when a 14-year-old girl and a 20-year-old boy were jogging in the Botanical Garden in Craiova.

At some point, a 17-year-old boy approached them and began to stare intently at the girl. The 20-year-old reportedly came to the girl’s defense, asking him why he was staring so intently. According to Digi 24, a scuffle broke out and the attacker pulled out a knife and stabbed the 20-year-old several times. The girl also intervened and tried to separate them, but the attacker rushed at her and also hit her. several times.

According to Dolj police, as a result of the investigation, it was established that “a conflict arose between a 17-year-old boy and two victims, as a result of which the 17-year-old man stabbed a 14-year-old girl and a 20-year-old man.

As a result of the attack, the girl died, and a 20-year-old man was seriously injured.

After stabbing the two boys, the 17-year-old left, leaving them in a pool of blood, and at the exit of the botanical garden he was met by a police crew who asked him where he was going, he replied that he had gone for a walk and was going home. A few minutes later, a passer-by discovered the bodies of the victims in a pool of blood and called 112. The perpetrator was soon caught.

“We saw the man running away, me and my girlfriend. I just didn’t suspect anything. He had long hair and wore it down his back, he had a mask on his face and gloves,” the witness said, according to observernews.ro.

The injured young man is in serious condition and is hospitalized in the intensive care unit, allegedly having lost a large amount of blood.

“He is unstable, receives complex and long-term intensive therapy, is constantly under the supervision and care of a multidisciplinary team of specialists. The prognosis is cautious,” said the spokeswoman of the Craiova Emergency Hospital, Dr. Cristina Geormanianu, according to Agerpres.

Who is the attacker?

The 17-year-old assailant is the son of a police officer from IPJ Dolj who works in the rural precinct.

He is a student at the Tudor Volodymyrescu Military College in Craiova, where an investigation will be carried out to see if he has caused problems in the past, Digi24 reports.

The attacker and his victims did not know each other.