September 21, 2018
Police in western Germany have arrested a 44-year-old Iranian man accused of stabbing a woman to death on a Dusseldorf street.
Authorities issued a photo of Ali Akbar Shahghaleh in the hope of getting information on his whereabouts. Nine days later, police in Seville, Spain, reported arresting the man.
Dusseldorf police had urged anyone who spotted Shahghaleh — described as about 6 feet (180 cm) tall with short, dark hair and beard stubble — not to approach him as he could be armed.
The German daily Express said German police traced the signal of his cellphone and located Shahghaleh on a train bound for Seville. They notified Spanish police who arrested him on the Seville platform as Shahghaleh stepped off the train.
The victim was a 36-year-old woman who lived near a convenience store Shahghaleh operated in the south of the city.
Witnesses heard screams and saw the suspect attacking the woman with a knife August 20. She later died in the hospital.
Authorities said the two knew each other, but the motive for the attack was still unclear, although there were news reports that Shahghaleh had a crush on the woman.
Six days after the knifing, police closed the railway station in Munster for three hours to search the rail yard after receiving a tip that a man who looked like Shahghaleh was seen there.
