Reconstruction: how the police closed the net around the Rotterdam serial shooter

Victims of the Rotterdam serial assailant can breathe a sigh of relief now that the suspect who struck several times since November last year and then took flight has been caught. The nocturnal predator is safely behind Spanish bars 1,500 kilometers away.

The arrest of “serial shooter” Sendric S. at the beginning of this year was a huge relief for the IJsselmonde district of Rotterdam. In a short time, the 24-year-old man just shot three passers-by in the street. During an intensive investigation, everything was done to find the perpetrator. How does such a manhunt work? The NOS reconstructed which investigative tools were used. After a murder (or other major incident), there are always a number …