Vozdovac Stabbing: Prosecutors Seek Detention for Suspect
The Higher Public Prosecutor's Office in Belgrade questioned Nenad R. (42) and asked a pre-trial judge to order his detention, on suspicion that he stabbed M. R. to death in a Vozdovac apartment.
Nenad R. (42) was questioned at the Higher Public Prosecutor’s Office in Belgrade on suspicion of committing murder. He is suspected of killing M. R. in an apartment in Vozdovac on September 7, at around 12:10 a.m.
According to the prosecutor’s statement, the killing followed a verbal argument that turned physical. Nenad R. is suspected of stabbing the victim twice with a kitchen knife, in the left side of the chest and in the right elbow. The victim died of his injuries.
“Two stab wounds to the victim, to the left side of the chest and to the right elbow,” the Higher Public Prosecutor’s Office in Belgrade said in its statement.
The suspect presented his own defense during questioning. Prosecutors then asked the pre-trial judge of the Higher Court in Belgrade to order detention for Nenad R., citing the risk that he could influence witnesses and the risk that he could reoffend in a short period of time.
We first reported on the Vozdovac case immediately after the suspect’s arrest, in the article “Vozdovac: he killed an acquaintance after an argument, then called the police.” At that point, only the arrest and the confession were known, while the exact time of the crime and the location of the stab wounds became public only now, after the prosecutor’s questioning.
Sources differ on one detail. Kurir, citing its own information, reports that the victim had been renting a room in the apartment and that the two men had been drinking together that evening. The official prosecutor’s statement, carried by Tanjug, does not mention this detail.
Until a final verdict, Nenad R. remains a suspect. The pre-trial judge of the Higher Court in Belgrade will decide whether to grant the request for his detention.
