The local community of Stratoniki in Halkidiki remains shocked by the brutal crime that occurred this morning when a 36-year-old man shot his 39-year-old wife with a hunting rifle in front of their own child and then committed suicide.

Police forces remain at the scene of the killer, according to ERT. A little while ago, the medical examiner, who came from Thessaloniki and performed an autopsy in the couple’s house, also left.

THE A 39-year-old woman was found with four wounds in the children’s room while o 36-year-old perpetrator and self-inflicted with one wound In the bedroom of the couple.

The eight-year-old, who was injured by shrapnel, wandered around the house injured for some time.

The 39-year-old’s mother had been calling since the morning, no one was answering and she got worried. In fact, the couple’s 12-year-old daughter had spent the night at her house and when she decided to go to her daughter’s house, she found out exactly what had happened and thus the authorities were also informed.

The eight-year-old, who witnessed his father killing his mother, was injured in the hand by shrapnel and was transported by ambulance first to the Paleochori Health Center and then to the Hippocrates Hospital of Thessaloniki, where he is undergoing surgery.

The wound, which he bears, is deep from the elbow to the palm. The child is out of danger, his state of health is good, as reported by ERT sources, but he has abrasions all over his body, possibly again from carbine shrapnel.