After the death of a teenager in Romans-sur-Isère (Drôme), Tuesday April 9, the main suspect surrendered and was placed in police custody this Thursday.
The main suspect in the murder of a 15-year-old teenager by stabbing on Tuesday April 9 in Romans-sur-Isère (Drôme) is in police custody. A 27-year-old man went to the police on Thursday April 11, announced Laurent de Caigny, the public prosecutor of Valencia, in a press release. “At the end of the morning today, the main suspect on the run until then, who may have carried out the fatal blow, spontaneously presented himself to the investigation service and was immediately placed in police custody,” explained the prosecutor. He is suspected of being the author of the stabbing that killed the 15-year-old young man. Through two testimonies, the suspect had been identified but had been on the run since the incident.
On the evening of April 9, an argument broke out between two young people in the Monnaie district of Romans-sur-Isère. It was then that the 15-year-old teenager, trying to calm things down, was stabbed in the back. He died moments later in hospital. Witnesses reported to the police that members of the same family, but from a different district than that of La Monnaie, had arrived by car in the evening, declaring that they were “looking for a young person”. An altercation which followed a first dispute which occurred a few days earlier in front of a school.
A first arrest
“My son had nothing to do with it,” testified, on RTL, the father of the slain teenager, whom he described as “a good, nice guy” and who were apprenticed in the construction industry. According to him, his son “wanted to separate” the people involved in the altercation. The investigation was entrusted to the specialized organized crime division of the interdepartmental judicial police service of Drôme. A first arrest was made on Wednesday April 10. “It concerned an individual linked to the suspects and having driven one of the suspect vehicles,” said the prosecutor.