27-year-old leads police to woman's body in Hamburg-Lokstedt

After the violent death of a woman in the Lokstedt district of Hamburg, the homicide squad and the public prosecutor's office are investigating a 27-year-old man. The Gambian national is suspected of killing the woman.

According to the police, the man appeared at police station 23 on Troplowitzstrasse on Tuesday afternoon around 3:30 p.m., just a few minutes' walk from the crime scene. He initially wanted to report bodily harm to the officers, according to a police statement. He then led the emergency services to an apartment building on Grandweg. On the way there, he reported to the officers about a dead person in an apartment.

Police discovered the body of a woman in the apartment he mentioned. According to investigators, she had fatal injuries. Media reports say the woman's head was severed; the police have not made any announcement about this. The 27-year-old was arrested at the scene on suspicion of homicide and then taken back to the police station.

According to consistent media reports, the apartment was on the second floor of a seven-story apartment building. Lokstedt is located in the Eimsbüttel district and is one of the more classically middle-class districts of the Hanseatic city. Forensics investigated the crime scene until the evening hours. The police initially did not provide any information about the age or identity of the woman who was killed. It was also unclear what relationship she had with the arrested man. Likewise, there was initially no reliable information about the motive or the exact course of the crime.