France shootings: Three victims shot in head

[Supreme]

BBC News - France shootings: Three victims shot in head

Three of the four victims of a shooting in the French Alps were shot in the head, a French prosecutor has said.

A man, named by UK neighbours as Saad al-Hilli, 50, from Surrey, and an elderly woman were found dead in a car near Lake Annecy. A French cyclist, found nearby, was also shot dead.

Mr al-Hilli's wife was also killed, and a daughter, four, hid in the car for eight hours before police found her.

Another daughter was found near the car with serious injuries.

Police said a British cyclist, who had served in the RAF, found the adults and child on a forest road.

Mr al-Hilli's wife was named by neighbours in Claygate as Iqbal, and the couple's daughters as Zainab, seven, and Zeena.

What a sickening crime this is. It looks to be a professional killing as the victims were shot in the head, and there is speculation of assassination. We can only hope that the French police hunt down and arrest the shooter soon. He should spend the rest of his life behind bars.

 

[Billnew]

It was definately not a random killing, except for the unfortunate cyclist.
Shooting them in the head means they wanted them dead. In the states that doesn't automatically mean a professional.

Seems like the police need a quicker response, eight hours to start processing a crime scene? 8 hours before they realized there was someone still alive in the car?

 

[Supreme]

It was definately not a random killing, except for the unfortunate cyclist.
Shooting them in the head means they wanted them dead. In the states that doesn't automatically mean a professional.

Seems like the police need a quicker response, eight hours to start processing a crime scene? 8 hours before they realized there was someone still alive in the car?

Yeah, the response of the police really wasn't good enough in this situation. Their excuse that they were trying not to contaminate evidence really doesn't wash.

The cyclist most likely was killed because he witnessed the whole thing, which sounds like something out of a movie. Sadly, this is reality.