Police investigating shooting death of 17-year-old girl

AMMAN — Police on Wednesday said they were investigating the shooting death of a teenage girl in Ramtha, some 90km north of the capital, a day earlier.

A relative found the 17-year-old victim shot dead at her family’s home, Ramtha Police Department Director Col. Amar Qudah said.

“A relative who lived nearby heard a shot and rushed to find the victim shot in the chest,” Qudah told The Jordan Times.

The police official said investigators collected evidence from the scene and blood and tissue samples were sent to the crime lab for further analysis.

“A special committee is currently investigating the incident,” Qudah added.

A second source told The Jordan Times that investigators found a weapon in the vicinity.

“The gun, which belonged to her father, was sent to the crime lab for a ballistic match,” the second source told The Jordan Times.

Meanwhile, a postmortem conducted by Ali Shotar of the Irbid National Institute of Forensic Medicine indicated that the victim was shot “at close range”, a medical source said.

“The autopsy indicated that the weapon was touching the victim’s chest when it was fired,” the medical source told The Jordan Times.

The autopsy revealed that the victim died of a single gunshot wound to the chest, the medical source added.