New detail in the Afyonkarahisar attack: The attacker hijacked the vehicle by saying "I am an MİT officer"

It was revealed that Arif Sefa Özdemir, who killed 8 people with a shotgun in Afyonkarahisar's İhsaniye district, seized the car with license plate 26 APL 557 belonging to Talha Gökgöz (19) in Eskişehir's Seyitgazi district, Kırka District, Çatoren Dam location, by introducing himself as an MİT officer and stealing it at gunpoint. Suspect Özdemir went to Taşlık District after taking the vehicle. After the vehicle got stuck in the mud, he abandoned the car and fled on foot. Özdemir, who then hijacked another car, was caught in the same location.

'HE POINTED A RIFLE AT US'

Explaining that the suspect Özdemir came while he and his friend were stopping on the road to smoke, Talha Gökgöz said:

"We were in Kırka District of Seyitgazi district. My friend and I stopped to smoke a cigarette. The suspect approached us with the car. He introduced himself as an MİT officer. At that time, he started searching the car. He asked if there were any drugs. He took our phones. He took out a gun from the car, when he put a bullet in it, I thought he was going to kill us, then we thought he was going to take the car away. He turned towards my friend and I took out the key. We took our phones from the cliff where he threw them and called 112. We were drinking in his car. "He had bottles, we understood that he was drunk and we didn't ask for his ID. Since I was not aware of the murders, I thought he would take the car and run away. When he pointed a gun at my friend, I gave him the keys so that he wouldn't have hurt me. If we didn't, he would have shot me and my friend. He couldn't continue on foot."

On the other hand, suspect Arif Sefa Özdemir, who was taken into custody in Eskişehir and underwent a health check, was handed over to Afyonkarahisar teams after the procedures. The investigation into the incident continues.