The Nikšić police are searching for Lazar Vulević from Bar on suspicion of murdering MP and MV from Nikšić, the Police Directorate (UP) announced today.
"Police officers from the Regional Security Center 'West', Nikšić Security Department are searching for Lazar Vulević (50) from Bar on suspicion of committing a double murder against MP and MV from Nikšić. We appeal to citizens that if they have any information about this person, they should report this information to the nearest police station, via the duty number 122 or anonymously at 19969, and that if they find themselves in the same area or building with this person, they should be careful," the statement states.
The UP said that they provided photos of the suspect, which were taken from publicly available open sources, for the purpose of easier recognition and reporting.
The bodies of two people, a woman and a man, were found earlier in an apartment on Peka Pavlovića Street in the center of Nikšić.
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According to unofficial information from Television Vijesti, the murder is not related to a showdown between organized crime groups.
The Police Directorate officially announced earlier today that the Nikšić police were informed last night at around 7:20 p.m. by a family member that MP (74) was not answering their phone calls and that they had not established contact with him for two days.
"Taking comprehensive measures and actions to find this person and determine all circumstances, police officers from the Nikšić Security Department located an apartment, which was locked. In accordance with legal authorization, police officers entered the interior of the apartment where they found the lifeless body of MP, as well as the lifeless body of MV (41) with visible injuries suspected to have been caused by the use of a cold weapon - a knife. The rented apartment was used by MV," reads a statement from the Police Department delivered earlier today.
The Police Department then added that the prosecutor at the Higher State Prosecutor's Office in Podgorica was informed of the incident and conducted an on-site investigation with police officers.
"During the police and prosecutorial activities undertaken, the police learned about the identity of the perpetrator of this criminal offense, whose location and deprivation of liberty are being intensively worked on. The motive for this serious criminal offense is known to the competent authorities, and taking into account its gravity, as well as the private circumstances of the injured parties and the perpetrator, we cannot provide any more details at this stage of the proceedings," the UP said.
Prosecutor's Office: On-site investigation carried out, traces and video recordings seized
The Higher State Prosecutor's Office in Podgorica announced that, following the incident in which two people were killed in Nikšić, it conducted an on-site investigation in cooperation with authorized police officers, forensic experts and an expert autopsy expert, during which all traces were seized, as well as video recordings found at the scene.
"In the course of the proceedings so far, the perpetrator of the criminal offense in question has been identified, as well as an order for an autopsy of the bodies of the victims, while several orders for expert examination have been issued regarding the seized traces. The Higher State Prosecutor's Office is taking all measures and actions within its jurisdiction in order to shed light on the incident in question," the statement reads.
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