After the fatal attack on a schoolgirl on Monday in Illerkirchberg (Alb-Donau district), police have released details of the crime. A 27-year-old fugitive is a suspect in the crime. In Oberkirchberg, a suburb of Illerkirchberg in the Alb-Donau district, a man attacked two girls on their way to the school bus on Monday morning. The suspect is a 27-year-old from Eritrea. According to police and the public prosecutor's office in Ulm, the man attacked the schoolgirls presumably with a knife. One of them was resuscitated at the scene, but the 14-year-old died later in hospital. The other girl, a 13-year-old schoolgirl, was seriously but not life-threateningly injured, a police spokesman said. The suspect had come from an asylum shelter and fled back there after the crime. He and two other men were found there in the morning. According to the information, the suspect was taken to hospital with minor injuries. There he is currently under police guard. The other two men were taken to the police station. In addition, a knife was seized, which can be considered as a weapon. Still no motive for the attack on the schoolgirl in Illerkirchberg According to a police statement, it is still unclear why the girls were attacked. It is currently being investigated how the crime occurred, whether the suspect and the two schoolgirls knew each other beforehand. Police stress that they are aware that events of this kind stir up fears and emotions. It therefore asks not to harbor any general suspicion against strangers, those seeking protection or asylum seekers in general, or to encourage or support such suspicions. Eyewitness saw bleeding girl lying on the ground An eyewitness had reported to SWR that he had heard noises near a traffic light in the morning in the village south of Ulm. He looked and "there was the girl lying bleeding on the ground with a huge stab wound in the abdomen. A second one had injuries below the chest, a stab wound. She was completely disintegrated." Mayor: Community in shock. After the attack, there is horror in the municipality of Illerkirchberg about the act. The municipality stands under shock, so mayor Markus Häußler (parteilos). One will stand with the families concerned to the side and now only once wait, what the investigations of the police will result. Danger for the population did not exist according to police. Nevertheless, the children were picked up by their parents at a nearby elementary school. Baden-Württemberg's Interior Minister Thomas Strobl (CDU) commented on the crime on Monday evening. The 14-year-old had been abruptly and brutally torn from life. "In these difficult hours, our thoughts are with the parents, the family, the bereaved families of those killed, as well as with the classmates and friends of the young girl. Our heartfelt sympathy goes out to them," Strobl said in a statement. Strobl wished the 13-year-old girl, who was injured in the crime, a quick and complete physical and psychological recovery. The Minister of the Interior announced that the crime in Illerkirchberg would be fully investigated. https://www.swr.de/swraktuell/baden-wuerttemberg/ulm/sek-einsatz-illerkirchberg-102.html https://twitter.com/wolsned/status/1599862319152271360