Wuppertal (dpa / lnw) – After a 58-year-old man was found dead in his apartment in Wuppertal, the police arrested a suspect. The 41-year-old was arrested on Monday in a Wuppertal apartment building, the public prosecutor and the police said together. The man known to the police is now in custody on suspicion of a homicide.

Relatives could not reach the 58-year-old at the beginning of July and then found the Wuppertal dead in his apartment. According to the autopsy result, the man was probably killed by a blow, the public prosecutor and the police said. The background and the course of events are to be determined as part of a murder commission.