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French pensioner kills one in rampage over street noise (Roundup)

Jun 12, 2009, 13:32 GMT

Paris - A pensioner in France's eastern Alsace region killed one person and seriously wounded another in a nighttime gun rampage apparently triggered by his anger of youths making too much noise out on the street, police said Friday. The man, said to be about 60 years old, later gave himself up to police after he had holed himself up in his apartment following the attack. A special police commando unit had surrounded the building. The incident occurred in the town of Guemar, some 300 kilometres east of the capital Paris. Police said that shortly after midnight, the man fired three times at a group of youths gathered at a square near his home. A man of about 30, who apparently had sought to assuage the older man, was killed by one of the shots. The gunman then fired two shots at a vehicle driving past. The bullets shattered the windshield, with glass fragments seriously wounding the driver in the eye. In an account given to French radio by one of the youths, the gunman began by shouting at the group. 'We did not understand what he wanted. Then the 30-year-old went over to him and the man shot at him with no warning,' the youth said. According to other witnesses, there had already been a number of disputes in recent weeks between the gunman and the youths because of their nighttime noise. 'He had already called the police several times,' one woman neighbour said.

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