Life was raging in downtown Nuremberg when the fatal shots were fired.

People stood in front of cafes and fast food restaurants on this October evening, ate, drank and talked.

Investigators knew who fired the shots on the evening of the crime.

However, it took a good quarter of a year before the suspected shooter could be put under lock and key.

On Thursday last week, a special task force entered a room in the Hotel Londres in the Italian Adriatic town of Rimini.

The alleged perpetrator was asleep at the time.

He is now in an Italian prison.

In the clash in Nuremberg, a 30-year-old man died shortly before he became a father.

A 35-year-old was seriously injured by the shots.

He was "drawn from the fact," said the head of the special commission set up by the police, Alexander Berthold, on Monday.

The trio knew each other.

There had apparently already been fleeting encounters between the 35-year-old and the alleged shooter in Turkey.

The alleged perpetrator wanted to start selling tobacco and shisha products.

The two victims had had a business relationship with him.

Berthold and his team were able to quickly identify the 28-year-old, who, like the 35-year-old, had only traveled to Germany from the Ukraine months before the crime.

A video camera in the south of Nuremberg had recorded everything.

Cell phone contacts and social media helped to track him down.

Bayreuth, Fürth, Frankfurt am Main could have been stations on the run.

The only thing the police are sure of is that the man was in Frankfurt at some point – but a raid involving more than 100 police officers in the Main metropolis did not lead to the arrest.

The trail was lost.

Access succeeds in Italy

After the evaluation of more than 400 tips and the questioning of more than 100 witnesses, the decisive access was only possible in Italy on the basis of a European arrest warrant.

A fake Greek passport and a Glock pistol were also found in the hotel room.

According to Central Franconia's chief of police, Adolf Blöchl, a suspected member of the Turkish mafia was arrested in the hostel in Rimini in the summer.

Italian newspaper reports once again made a connection to organized crime.

However, the Nuremberg police did not confirm this on Monday.

There is currently no reliable evidence for this.

The public prosecutor's office in Nuremberg-Fürth is now trying to extradite the 28-year-old to Germany.

On the day of the crime, the immigration authorities had issued a negative decision on his application for residence in Germany – but he was not aware of the decision at the time of the crime.

The extradition should now take place only once because of violations of the weapons law and because of document forgery.

The accusation in Germany was then initially manslaughter, said authority spokeswoman Antje Gabriels-Gorsolke.

Whether the accusation will be changed to murder depends on further investigations, including a motive.

The police and prosecutors were still covered on Monday.