"Beat & Release": Laser Tracks Reverse Angle to Air Rifle Shot That Killed Walker, in Ümraniye

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(Hürriyet Newspaper, 17 July 2025)

Angel of Death's air rifle shot back-tracked by laser shot.

On Thursday 10 July, at precisely 1408 hours, while walking 

with a friend, furniture salesman Rıfat Üretir (56) suddenly fell

to the ground in the Aşağı Dudullu neighborhood of Ümraniye, 

Istanbul.  According to the statement of his friend M.Y., there

was bleeding on Üretir's back but no gunghot had been heard - 

only a whizzing sound.  

Police arrived at the scene and determined that Üretir had been

killed by a bullet from an air rifle.  They used a laser technique

to track the firing point to two possible addresses, one of which

was a workshop on Hacı Hasan Efendi Boulevard where air

guns and other equipment for the police, films and TV shows

are made.

Workshop owner Numan O.Ö. (33) told police that the 

workshop's security camera was not working (!), but a repair

shop contradicted this.  Consequently, Numan bey confessed

that he had been "test-firing" an air rifle and the bullet hit

Üretir by mistake.  In a panic, he then destroyed the rifle and

the security camera gear.  

A search of the workshop turned up two other air rifles and

bullets like the one that killed Üretir.  Numan bey was jailed.