Investigation revealed

Because Josef S. was supposed to move out, he shot his wife

The crime scene, a detached house in Ebensee

(Bild: laumat)

"Till death do you part" - Josef S. (71) from Ebensee took this literally. The pensioner from Ebensee, who was divorced, had already had his own apartment since 5 January and was supposed to move out of the house of his wife, who was ten years younger than him, for good. He didn't want to, and that was obviously the impetus for the bloody deed that kept Ebensee in suspense on Saturday morning.

The sport shooter, musician and fisherman tried to murder his still-wife in the ironing room on the upper floor with three shots from his small-caliber rifle at around 9 am. But he only managed to graze the head. The victim was able to wrest the gun from the perpetrator and flee with it.

The perpetrator was not the type of person you would expect to take such action. It was not foreseeable. Everyone here is affected.

Sabine Promberger, Bürgermeisterin von Ebensee

Bild: Land OÖ/Denise Stinglmayr

Wife survived her husband's attempted murder
The wife, covered in blood, threw the gun away outside and drove to the police, where she filed a report. Two hours later, when Cobra dared to intervene, the officers found Josef S. dead in the garage. He had committed suicide there. An autopsy was ordered for Monday to confirm the cause of death.

"We are very shocked. You read about things like this all the time. But when something like this happens in your own town, it's something completely different," says Ebensee Mayor Sabine Promberger.