"Beat & Release": The Family That Murders Together, Goes to Jail Together

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(Hürriyet Newspaper, 10 July 2021)

the prequel click here to see how this all started.

                                    Homicidal genetics.

Emre Tyler Mays was stabbed to death before his mother's eyes by Akın

Kutlu, who mistook Mays for a foe, in January 2020 at a hospital in 

Şişli, Istanbul.  Now, Akın's older brother Muhammed Kutlu has 

committed a murder and has been arrested, together with another brother 

and his father.  The mother has been charged with inciting the murder. (!)

Mays, the son of  a wine firm family, was killed by mistake by Akın 

because of  an unrelated incident that occurred at the Kutlu family's

hamburger stand in Fulya, Şişli, during which Akın's father Gazi

and older brother Davut were injured.  Gazi Kutlu was running the 

stand with his brother-in-law Hacı Tekcan, but they had a falling out. 

While Akın Kutlu has been in jail for the Mays murder, his mother

Döndü Kutlu mused about her brother Hacı Tekcan: "my son's in jail.

I'll make Hacı suffer like I'm suffering the absence of my child by

cutting off his son Ozan's head and throwing it at his feet!"

Ozan was working as a delivery boy for the hamburger stand.  On 

22 December 2020, Davut Kutlu had an argument with Ozan and 

called his mother to tell her that Ozan and his friend Batuhan

Karanlıkoğlu had gone to the police station to file a complaint about

Davut.  

At the police station, Davut and Ozan began to fight again.  At this

point, father Gazi Kutlu, mother Döndü Kutlu and brother Muhammed

Kutlu arrived at the police station and Gazi began to beat Ozan with a

metal bar (!).  Muhammed grabbed a gun from his motorcycle pouch

and shot Ozan three times in the head, three times in the legs and twice

in the neck.  Ozan died at the scene and Batuhan Karanlıkoğlu was hit

by a bullet in his left thumb.  

Police fired into the air to quell the fight and took the attackers into 

custody.  Gazi, Muhammed and Davut were put in jail and mother

Döndü was fitted with an electronic clamp for house arrest.  The

public prosecutor has filed a case against Muhammed for "intentional

murder" of Akın, asking for a life sentence and tacking on another 15

years for the wounding of Karanlıkoğlu.  In the indictment, Gazi is

also charged with murder and wounding, while mother Döndü and 

Davut are charged with having incited the murder, for which they would

receive life jail sentences. 

                                Şişli district of Istanbul