Spanish police said on Tuesday they had detained a 25-year-old man who allegedly killed his two parents and injured four others, including his infant son, in a shooting overnight in the southern city of El Ejido, Almeria province.
The four injured were hospitalized and in a serious condition, the Guardia Civil force said in a statement. As well as the suspect's son, the injured included a man, a woman, and another minor.
The shooting was first reported after 11 p.m. local time on Monday, the statement said. Specialist units arrested the suspect at around 4 a.m. on Tuesday.
Police were investigating the motive for the shooting, which they said initially appeared to be domestic violence, as well as the origin of the firearm he used, as the suspect did not possess a gun license.
Shootings are relatively rare in Spain, where gun ownership is tightly regulated and firearms are less common than in other European countries. Spain recorded 53 firearm homicides in 2023, according to the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime, or 0.1 deaths per 100,000 people - among the lowest rate in both Europe and the world.
Spanish police arrest 18-year-old ISIS-linked terrorist, seize propaganda materials
Also in southern Spain, National Police agents arrested an 18-year-old with ties to jihadist terrorism in the town of Tarifa last Monday, Spanish police reported.
The suspect, a young Spanish convert to Islam, had adopted the extremist dogmas of ISIS. According to their investigation, police discovered that the youth had been radicalized via the internet to an alarming degree, enough to officially swear an oath of allegiance to ISIS.
He was arrested for the crimes of membership in a terrorist group, glorification of terrorism, self-training, self-indoctrination, and indoctrination of others.
Jonah Davidov contributed to this report.