A call for donations for murdered Lisa T. has been launched and 68,000 euros have already been collected

The mourning for the murdered Lisa T. is still great: The 13-year-old left her family's apartment on Tuesday last week at around 7:15 a.m. to go to her school from a nearby bus stop. She didn't get there.

On Sunday, the body of the girl from Berlin-Marzahn was discovered on an abandoned property in Altglietzen, a district of Bad Freienwalde (Brandenburg), as was a 22-year-old suspect. The man had inflicted a self-inflicted gunshot wound. He is being investigated.

The local broadcaster RBB (Rundfunk Berlin-Brandenburg) reported from the start about the missing person case, which had a gruesome end, and the tragedy apparently left its mark on the journalists too. In the news program “Abendschau”, presenter Volker Wieprecht was apparently briefly overwhelmed by emotions. When the 63-year-old wanted to moderate a live broadcast with reporter Arndt Breitfeld about the case and move on to the next article, Wieprecht got stuck.

Video clips that later circulated on

“What still needs to be clarified in the Lisa case is part of an oppressive reality,” Wieprecht finally continued in a thick voice. “Violence against women and girls is part of everyday life in Germany.” This led to an article about the Berlin serial rapist Marvin S., who is back in court for several crimes.

“We waited, we hoped, all the time,” writes the uncle

An online appeal for donations for the relatives of the killed girl, which was apparently initiated by a relative, was also widely shared on the Internet. “For Lisa (13) and her family” is the appeal on GoFundMe, the initiator is, according to Lisa’s own statement, an uncle of Lisa’s. The (currently suspended) appeal for donations is already at over 68,000 euros. The money will go to the relatives and also be used for the girl's funeral, according to the website.

The initiator Andreas Le also writes about the relatives' grieving process: "We waited, we hoped, the whole time. And now we know that she will never come home again." And he shares personal memories of his niece: "Lisa is such a lovely person. Quiet, reserved, not one to run away, not one to do shit. She was always at home, always with her parents, always with her siblings. She loved them more than anything. And when she had time to herself, she sat at her laptop and played games."

The grief and distress of the relatives are enormous, said the Berliner. "I saw Lisa's parents. Honestly, how are you going to cope? Your daughter is gone, you wait for her, you have hope all the time, and in the end she's still dead. They're not just going to go back to work next week."

Lisa's mother is self-employed as a nail designer, Lisa's father quit his current job to come back to Berlin. "They have saved a little bit, but I don't want them to have to use it all up now. That's why I'm doing this. I just want to help the family," it says.

Suspicion of child pornography against the 22-year-old from Berlin-Marzahn

How Lisa T. died is still unclear. After an autopsy, further investigations were commissioned. The alleged perpetrator and the 13-year-old had not previously known each other, as the Berlin public prosecutor's office announced.

The man with German nationality was found on Sunday afternoon with a life-threatening gunshot wound in the same uninhabited house in eastern Brandenburg where the police also discovered the dead girl.

The suspect - a 22-year-old man with German citizenship - is receiving intensive medical treatment for a life-threatening gunshot wound, the public prosecutor's office said in a statement on Monday. Investigators have now searched his apartment in Marzahn-Hellersdorf. It said “potential evidence” had been seized.

The Berlin public prosecutor's office had been investigating him since January 2025 on suspicion of acquiring and possessing child pornographic content, as WELT also reported. This involves evaluating payments to a darknet platform.

In March 2025, as part of an international week of action against child pornography, the man's living quarters were searched and data carriers were seized. “These are said to contain over 900 incriminated files that he is said to have obtained in 2023,” explained the public prosecutor’s office.