A 40-year-old man was shot Monday night in a normally quiet residence in Brax. Neighbors are in shock. Police are actively searching for the shooter.
The traces of blood on the ground leave no doubt as to the violence of the attack. A man was shot and wounded on Monday night in Brax, a quiet town west of Toulouse. The victim is 40 years old. Emergency services were called at around 10.30pm to treat this individual, who had suffered a gunshot wound to the leg, possibly from a handgun. Orphéo S., originally from Suriname, was still in the hands of doctors on Tuesday.
“I was on the phone and I heard screaming and then when I came out the emergency services and the police were in the car park,” says Anne, a tenant. At least two tenants came to the victim's aid by applying compression points and keeping her awake: “We are shocked, it's a quiet, intergenerational residence here, yesterday the detonation was heard all the way to the city center, it feels like Le Mirail,” says a neighbor disappointed.
The gendarmes carried out a neighborhood investigation
Investigators from the Toulouse Mirail investigation brigade, supported by the dog brigade and the Toulouse investigation section, were on the scene on Tuesday to collect as much evidence as possible and understand the sequence of events.
According to our information, the victim had an altercation, the tone would have increased, with at least one person outside the Cigareaux residence, housing made up of about twenty social housing managed by the owner Alteal. Who sent a representative to the scene to reassure the neighbors of this quiet place. The victim's immediate neighbor would be, for example, totally upset.
A resident that was not talked about
The injured South American, Orphéo S., is only known for minor crimes, mainly road traffic.
It would never have been reported to the landlord for any problem before. Why he was the target of what appears to be “a holdover” remains to be seen.
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Gendarmerie specialists are actively looking for the shooter. An investigation has been opened by the public prosecutor's office in Toulouse for attempted murder.