The Amsterdam police arrested a 54-year-old man at Schiphol on Thursday, October 16, on suspicion of involvement in a deadly shooting in 2002 in Amsterdam Zuidoost. The man has been extradited from America to the Netherlands. Today, he was presented in Amsterdam to the examining magistrate, who has detained him for a period of fourteen days.
The man is the main suspect in a shooting in an apartment building in Amsterdam-Zuidoost on August 3, 2002, in which a 33-year-old man from Rotterdam was fatally hit. Subsequently, another shooting occurred that day in the parking garage of the apartment building, resulting in two injuries. The man who has now been extradited from America is suspected of being the shooter in both incidents.
From the investigation that the Amsterdam police initiated immediately after the shooting, the man who was arrested yesterday emerged as the main suspect. However, it turned out that he fled abroad immediately after the shooting. He remained untraceable despite an international alert until the American authorities arrested him in June 2021 on suspicion of drug trafficking.
Meanwhile, the man has served his American sentence, and the American authorities have agreed to his extradition to the Netherlands on suspicion of murder and two counts of attempted murder.
The Amsterdam court sentenced a 26-year-old man in this case in June 2003 to five years in prison for complicity in the shooting.