NL incident archive
Source-backed homicide and attempted homicide records documented in NL. This page summarizes the archive's documented floor for the country; it is not an official total or a representative sample.
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- Documented records
- 27
- Cities represented
- 18
- Latest incident date
- 29 September 2026
- Latest review
- 30 September 2026
Documented floor by year
| Year | Documented here | Official reference |
|---|---|---|
| 2026 | 18 records | — |
| 2025 | 6 records | — |
| 2024 | 1 record | — |
| 2023 | 1 record | — |
| 2019 | 1 record | — |
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Current judicial status
- 13Alleged
- 7Charged
- 1On trial
- 6Convicted
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- Arnhem, NL
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- Amsterdam, NL
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- Roermond, NL
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- Katwijk, NL
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- Amsterdam, NL
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- Overasselt, NL
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- Amsterdam, NL
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- Amsterdam, NL
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Latest documented records
- Attempted homicide in arnhem, NL
· Alleged · 3 sources
A minor was seriously injured during an evening of violence in the centre of Arnhem on 29 September 2026, and one of the people arrested afterwards is suspected of attempted manslaughter. Police were called to a fight at Arnhem Centraal station at about 21:30. A group of roughly fifteen young people was involved; when officers arrived the group scattered, and further incidents then broke out at several locations in the surrounding city centre, among them the Korenmarkt and the Willemsplein. Three people were injured. One of them, a minor, was seriously hurt. Police said a stabbing had probably also taken place. A bystander account described a victim with wounds to the chest and shoulder, with others stemming the bleeding with a T-shirt. Eight people aged between 17 and 20, from various places in the Netherlands, were arrested, three of them at the central station. One of the eight is suspected of attempted manslaughter. The two other injured people were themselves designated as suspects. Police said they were still investigating what had happened and what the involvement of each suspect was, and appealed for witnesses to the fight to come forward. No charge decision had been announced.
- Homicide in amsterdam, NL
· Alleged · 6 sources
A man was shot dead shortly after 15:00 on the afternoon of Friday 25 September 2026 on a crowded restaurant terrace on the NDSM quay in Amsterdam-Noord. Many people were on the terrace at the time. A witness eating in the restaurant with his wife described hearing two loud bangs, people running into the building, and then learning that they had been shots. The couple hid under a table before leaving with everyone else. Other customers told a city newspaper that an argument over a loose dog had preceded the shooting. Footage published shortly after the killing appears to show the suspect throwing the firearm used moments earlier into the water, and shouting in the direction of the terrace. A suspect is in custody. He is held under restrictions and may have contact only with his lawyer, and police have released no further information about him. No charge has been reported.
- Homicide in roermond, NL
· Alleged · 4 sources
A 21-year-old man from Roermond was shot dead on the evening of Sunday 20 September 2026 in a residential district of the town. Several residents called the emergency number at around 21:50 after hearing a number of shots on the Terbaansweg. A trauma helicopter was among the services called out. The victim was given resuscitation at the scene but died there. Part of the street was cordoned off, and many residents gathered outside afterwards. A police forensic team examined the scene. Officers collected footage from security and doorbell cameras in the neighbourhood and spoke to possible witnesses. In the days that followed no arrest was made and the investigation team appealed for anyone who had seen or heard something to come forward. On Thursday 24 September two men reported themselves to the police and were arrested on suspicion of involvement in the shooting. No charge has yet been reported.
- Homicide in overasselt, NL
· Charged · 9 sources
In de nacht van 1 september werd in het Gelderse dorp Overasselt een huis onder vuur genomen. Een beveiliger werd doodgeschoten en twee politieagenten raakten gewond. Volgens de verslaggeving was een drugslading van 812 kilo mogelijk de aanleiding voor het geweld. In de uren na de schietpartij hield de politie 34 verdachten aan. Op 4 september 2026 maakte het Openbaar Ministerie Oost-Nederland bekend dat 32 van de aangehouden verdachten als groep worden verdacht van moord of doodslag op de beveiliger — een 51-jarige man uit Wijchen die bij de woning aan de Ewijkseweg aan het werk was — en van poging tot moord op de twee gewonde agenten. De groep bestaat uit zestien Fransen, elf Nederlanders, twee Algerijnen, een Libiër, een Oekraïner en een Belg; twee van hen zijn minderjarig. De rechter-commissaris besloot dezelfde dag dat zij allen zeker veertien dagen langer vastzitten. In september 2026 boog de raadkamer van de rechtbank in Arnhem zich over de voorlopige hechtenis van de aangehouden verdachten. Op 16 september besloot de raadkamer dat veertien van hen negentig dagen langer vastzitten; op 18 september volgden er nog dertien, van wie elf meerderjarigen negentig dagen langer vastzitten en twee minderjarigen vijfenveertig dagen. De groep wordt daarnaast verdacht van voorbereidingen voor moord, doodslag, gijzeling, vrijheidsberoving en wapenbezit. De inhoudelijke behandeling van de zaak moet nog beginnen.
- Attempted homicide in amsterdam, NL
· Alleged · 7 sources
Three men were taken to hospital after a stabbing on the De Ruijterkade, behind Amsterdam Centraal station, on the evening of 29 August 2026. Emergency services were called at about 19:30 and several ambulances and police units attended. Four men were injured in total. One of them was arrested at the scene as a suspect. Police said none of the injured was in a life-threatening condition. Footage circulating on social media shows a man who appears to have been involved in the incident broadcasting a live stream, in which he argues with a group of men and says, among other things, that he is not afraid of six or seven men and that "they are all going to fall". He then lunges at one of the men and stabs him, which police have confirmed. The group then set upon him, punching and kicking him, and one of them appears to stop the camera. The suspect, a 43-year-old man from Naarden, was among the four injured and was himself taken to hospital. He is accused of stabbing three men. He was due to be brought before an examining magistrate on 1 September 2026. On 15 September 2026 the Public Prosecution Service confirmed that his pre-trial detention had been lifted. He remains a suspect, invokes self-defence, and the investigation continues. The injured men taken to hospital were able to go home the same day or the next.
- Homicide in venlo, NL
· Alleged · 2 sources
The body of a 40-year-old woman from Venlo was found by a walker on the afternoon of Saturday 22 August 2026, on the bank of the Maas near the Professor Gilissensingel in Venlo. Police treated the death as a possible crime from the outset. On Tuesday 25 August a 22-year-old man from Tegelen was arrested on suspicion of manslaughter or murder, and his home was searched. He was held in custody under restrictions and brought before the examining magistrate that Friday. In September 2026 investigators found that the woman had also been raped before her death, and the suspect, who remains in detention, is now suspected of qualified manslaughter.
- Homicide in rotterdam, NL
· Alleged · 3 sources
A 38-year-old man was found dead in his apartment in the De Statendam residential tower on the Botersloot, in the centre of Rotterdam, on the afternoon of Wednesday 19 August 2026. An acquaintance had raised the alarm at about 2.30pm after being unable to reach him. Police treated the death as a crime and opened a large-scale investigation with about twenty officers, searching the tower and its surroundings and canvassing neighbours. The investigation is focused on the night of Monday 17 to Tuesday 18 August: officers appealed for private camera footage recorded between 11pm on 17 August and 3am on 18 August. Three people from Rotterdam — a 33-year-old man and two women aged 27 and 40 — were arrested overnight on suspicion of involvement in the death. According to reports the national broadcaster described as not yet confirmed, they were detained after their car was boxed in by police. How investigators identified them has not been made public, and no charges had been reported at the time of the cited coverage.
- Homicide in den haag, NL
· Alleged · 5 sources
A woman was shot at a house on the New Yorksingel, in the Wateringse Veld district in the south of Den Haag, shortly after 2am on Saturday 8 August 2026. Emergency services found her seriously wounded at the address, where she lived, and she died. A suspect was arrested after police searched another property. An object resembling a weapon was recovered when he was detained, and the car used to flee the scene was seized. He is being held in full restrictions and may have contact only with his lawyer. The victim was reported to have been 34 and visibly pregnant, and her household was known to the domestic-abuse support service. A silent procession was held in her memory on the Thursday evening following her death. Later reporting described the case as a suspected femicide and identified the suspect as the victim's ex-partner. According to that account the couple had separated and the victim had refused to let him into her home.
- Attempted homicide in rotterdam, NL
· Alleged · 2 sources
Two police officers were seriously injured during a stop in Rotterdam-West on the evening of Tuesday 4 August 2026, after officers responded to a report of a disturbance. Both were taken to hospital and have since returned home; the severity of their injuries was not disclosed. Police said the man had "behoorlijk toegetakeld" — badly beaten up — the two officers. A 49-year-old Rotterdam resident was arrested on suspicion of attempted manslaughter and aggravated assault.
- Homicide in nijmegen, NL
· Alleged · 5 sources
A young man was shot shortly after 22:00 on 21 July 2026 on the Graafseweg in Nijmegen, just outside the area hosting the Vierdaagsefeesten, while large crowds were in the city. Ambulances and a trauma helicopter were sent to the scene, and the victim — an 18-year-old man from Rotterdam — died in hospital a short time later. Police cordoned off the site for forensic examination and appealed for witnesses. An 18-year-old man from Rotterdam was arrested the following night on suspicion of involvement, but was subsequently released and is no longer treated as a suspect. No one has been charged, and the circumstances of the shooting remain under investigation.
- Homicide in rotterdam, NL
· Alleged · 1 source
Bij een schietpartij in het centrum van Rotterdam is een man overleden. Het incident gebeurde rond 05.30 uur op het kruispunt van de Nieuwe Binnenweg en de Mathenesserlaan. De man raakte zwaargewond, werd ter plekke gereanimeerd, en is daarna overleden. De politie heeft zeven mensen aangehouden en onderzoekt wat hun rol was.
- Attempted homicide in amsterdam, NL
· Alleged · 3 sources
De politie heeft een 20-jarige man uit Amsterdam opgepakt voor poging tot doodslag en een straatroof in de Amsterdamse wijk De Pijp, na afloop van het duel Nederland-Marokko.
- Homicide in venlo, NL
· Alleged · 1 source
Een 56-jarige man uit Venlo is donderdag na een steekpartij overleden aan zijn verwondingen, meldt de politie. Een 55-jarige vrouw uit dezelfde Limburgse stad is opgepakt en zit momenteel vast voor verhoor.
- Homicide in groningen, NL
· Charged · 4 sources
De 15-jarige die wordt verdacht van de dubbele moord op diens ouders in Meerstad blijft in elk geval nog negentig dagen vastzitten. Dat heeft de raadkamer van de rechtbank in Groningen besloten. De verdachte werd op 18 juni aangehouden, kort nadat de politie de lichamen van de ouders levenloos had aangetroffen in hun huis. De politie drong die nacht de woning binnen, nadat er alarm was geslagen do Op 18 september 2026 besloot de rechtbank in Groningen tijdens een eerste pro-formazitting dat de verdachte zeker negentig dagen langer in voorlopige hechtenis blijft. Het Openbaar Ministerie liet weten dat uit onderzoek is gebleken dat zij alleen heeft gehandeld en niet is beinvloed door besloten online chatgroepen waarin extreem gewelddadige beelden worden gedeeld. De ouders waren beiden 53 jaar oud. In december 2026 volgt een volgende voorbereidende zitting; de inhoudelijke behandeling wordt in de eerste helft van 2027 verwacht.
- Homicide in blerick, NL
· Charged · 4 sources
Op de ochtend van 20 april 2026 is in Blerick, een stadsdeel van Venlo, een 14-jarig meisje in de ouderlijke woning door messteken om het leven gebracht. De melding van het steekincident kwam rond 06.30 uur binnen. Meerdere hulpdiensten en een traumahelikopter werden opgeroepen, maar het zwaargewonde slachtoffer overleed ter plaatse. Beide ouders werden dezelfde ochtend aangehouden. Op 23 april besloot de rechter-commissaris de vader vrij te laten; hij bleef wel verdachte. De moeder werd aangemerkt als hoofdverdachte en bleef in voorarrest. Zij heeft bij haar aanhouding verklaard dat zij haar dochter met meerdere messteken heeft gedood. Tijdens de zitting bij de rechtbank in Roermond op 29 juli 2026 werd bekend dat het slachtoffer met tape vastgebonden op een bed werd aangetroffen. Wie haar heeft vastgebonden is uit het onderzoek nog niet gebleken; forensisch onderzoek naar sporen op de tape moet daarover uitsluitsel geven. De verdachte wordt psychisch onderzocht in het Pieter Baan Centrum en kampt volgens het Openbaar Ministerie met psychiatrische problemen. Het motief is vooralsnog onduidelijk.
- Homicide in hoofddorp, NL
· Charged · 3 sources
A woman was killed on 15 April 2026 at a house on the Liesbos in Hoofddorp, where she lived with the suspect. At a preliminary hearing the public prosecutor set out that she had been stabbed in the head and neck with a knife and that her throat had been cut. A lawyer for her family described the case as a clear instance of femicide and said the suspect had isolated her from those around her. A 34-year-old man was arrested near the house shortly after the killing and is being held in pre-trial detention in a penitentiary psychiatric centre. He did not attend the preliminary hearing held at the district court in Alkmaar on 27 July 2026, at which the charges against him were read out. Two of the victim's sisters heard the details of the charge for the first time in open court; the public prosecutor apologised to the family's lawyer for the way that happened. The next hearing is scheduled for 12 October 2026.
- Homicide in amsterdam, NL
· Charged · 3 sources
A 54-year-old man was stabbed to death on the Tugelaweg in Amsterdam-Oost at about 10pm on Tuesday 14 April 2026. Emergency services attempted to resuscitate him, but he died at the scene. A group of students drinking outside nearby witnessed the attack. A 38-year-old Amsterdam man was arrested and remains in pre-trial detention. At a preliminary hearing in August 2026 his lawyer argued for his release, saying there was a major lack of evidence that his client carried out the stabbing; the suspect denies it and says he did not know the victim. The next hearing was set for 20 October 2026. The prosecution alleges that the stabbing followed an argument at a café on the Krugerplein over a debt of 400 euro, during which the suspect was struck by the victim. According to the prosecution, the victim was then run down by a Canta microcar as he fled and stabbed at least twice in the neck.
- Attempted homicide in utrecht, NL
· Charged · 3 sources
A man in an electric wheelchair was set on fire on the afternoon of Tuesday 14 April 2026, at about 15:30, outside the shopping centre on the Smaragdplein in Utrecht. Bystanders pulled him from the burning chair and laid him on the ground, and emergency services took him to hospital and later to a specialist burns centre. He suffered third-degree burns to about a fifth of his body and his life was in danger. He has since returned home, but his lawyer says his recovery is uneven and he is in pain around the clock. Two men, aged 55 and 37, were arrested within a day of the attack and are accused of attempted murder, among other offences. At the first public hearing at the court in Utrecht on 28 July 2026 the prosecution said the attack appeared to have been deliberate: one of the men is alleged to have gone into a supermarket, returned with a bottle of methylated spirits and poured it over the victim, and when the first attempt to set him alight faltered the pair are said to have come back to do it more thoroughly. Both men have been referred for psychiatric assessment. The three men were known to each other and investigators have pointed to a conflict between them.
- Homicide in amsterdam, NL
· Convicted · 3 sources
Een 77-jarige man werd op 14 oktober 2025 doodgestoken in zijn woning aan de Lekstraat in de Amsterdamse Rivierenbuurt. Hulpdiensten troffen hem zwaargewond aan; hij overleed kort daarna aan dertien messteken in onder meer hals, buik en borst. Een vrouw die eerder een kamer in de woning had gehuurd werd even later in de straat aangehouden. Volgens het Openbaar Ministerie lag een slepend conflict over huurachterstand ten grondslag aan de steekpartij. De rechtbank Amsterdam veroordeelde haar op 4 september 2026 tot vier jaar cel en tbs met dwangverpleging.
- Homicide in duivendrecht, NL
· Charged · 4 sources
A 17-year-old girl from Abcoude was killed in the early hours of 20 August 2025 beside a cycle path in Duivendrecht, south-east of Amsterdam, as she rode home on her electric bicycle after a night out. At about 04:00 she called the emergency number herself to say she was being attacked. Police rushed to the scene but arrived too late and found her body on the verge beside the water. She had been stabbed, among other injuries, in the neck. The killing caused shock across the Netherlands. A man of about 23 was arrested and charged with her murder, together with a violent rape in Amsterdam on 15 August 2025 and an attempted rape with aggravated assault on 10 August 2025. The case opened with a first pre-trial hearing at the Amsterdam court on 25 November 2025. At a second hearing on 11 February 2026 he confessed to all three offences. In April 2026 the court ordered further observation of the suspect at the Pieter Baan Centre, the national forensic psychiatric observation clinic, and set the substantive trial for 18, 20 and 22 January 2027. At a brief pre-trial hearing on 15 September 2026 it emerged that the clinic's report on his mental state would not be ready before the end of October.
- Homicide in coevorden, NL
· Convicted · 1 source
De rechtbank in Assen heeft the suspect donderdag veroordeeld tot negen jaar cel voor zijn rol bij een dodelijke schietpartij in Coevorden. Daarbij kwam een 21-jarige man om het leven. Een zeventienjarige medeverdachte kreeg 315 dagen jeugddetentie.
- Homicide in bocholtz, NL
· Convicted · 2 sources
A 39-year-old man from Kerkrade was shot dead on the Wilhelminastraat in Bocholtz, in the Dutch province of Limburg, on 29 May 2025. The shooting followed a dispute over the return of a motorcycle club jacket. Two gunmen opened fire almost simultaneously; a 26-year-old man from Bocholtz was shot by the second gunman and survived. On 11 August 2026 the Limburg district court sentenced a 22-year-old man to eleven years' imprisonment for the manslaughter of the 39-year-old and for the attempted manslaughter of another man. The prosecution service had charged murder, or in the alternative manslaughter, and had demanded thirteen years. The other gunman, a 43-year-old man from Heerlen, was convicted earlier in 2026 of the attempted manslaughter of the surviving victim and of unlawful firearm possession, and was sentenced to five years.
- Homicide in rijswijk, NL
· Alleged · 5 sources
A 41-year-old man was shot dead on the terrace of a hotel in Rijswijk, in the province of Zuid-Holland, shortly before 6pm on Thursday 1 May 2025. The terrace was busy at the time. Witnesses described a man walking up with his face uncovered, firing three shots at close range and running off into the park surrounding the hotel. The victim, a Turkish national, died at the scene. Police released a description and images of the gunman, who remains at large, and of a second suspect who was seen standing with him at the entrance to the park for several minutes before the shooting. Investigators treat the killing as a contract killing. The victim had reported threats against his life shortly beforehand; he was himself wanted in Turkey, where prosecutors suspected him of involvement in the shooting of a businessman and his driver in the Turkish-controlled north of Cyprus in 2022, and he had recently made public statements about prominent Turkish political and business figures. On 13 November 2025 a 47-year-old man was arrested in Germany at the request of the Dutch authorities on suspicion of involvement, and he was surrendered to the Netherlands at the end of January 2026; he is not suspected of firing the shots, and how he is connected to the case has not been made public. On 23 March 2026 a 34-year-old Turkish man with no fixed address was arrested in France, suspected of being the gunman; he was held there on a weapons charge while the Netherlands sought his surrender. Police are still looking for a third person believed to have been involved.
- Homicide in den dolder, NL
· Convicted · 4 sources
A 76-year-old woman was stabbed to death in Den Dolder on 2 January 2025. She was attacked without warning in the street in broad daylight, on her way home, and was stabbed seventeen times. The man responsible, then 29, was at the time required to stay at a psychiatric clinic in the town following a series of assaults, and was on leave on the day of the attack. On 22 July 2026 the district court in Utrecht convicted him and imposed eight years' imprisonment together with tbs, compulsory psychiatric treatment — a heavier sentence than the six years and tbs the prosecution had demanded. The court found the killing premeditated: he had bought a knife several days beforehand and hidden it under a small bridge, and had made repeated online searches about killing someone and about the sentence murder carries. He was assessed as only partially criminally responsible.
- Homicide in amsterdam, NL
· On trial · 4 sources
A 37-year-old woman was seriously wounded in her home in the Chasséstraat in the De Baarsjes neighbourhood of Amsterdam-West on the evening of Friday 16 August 2024, and died of her injuries in hospital two days later, on Sunday 18 August. Police were called at about 8.50pm and found the wounded woman, her partner and her six-year-old daughter in the flat. The partner, then 27, was arrested at the scene and the child was placed with a relative. The woman had suffered a wound to her leg that severed an artery and caused heavy blood loss. Neighbours later said they had heard what sounded like an argument. The prosecution alleges that the accused inflicted the wound with a shard of glass during a row, and is trying him for manslaughter, with the alternative charge of grievous bodily harm resulting in death if that is not made out. It regards a fallen vase as an unlikely cause of an arterial wound to the upper leg, which it says must have been inflicted with considerable force, and it points to a documented pattern of difficulty controlling aggression on the part of the accused, who had previously undergone treatment for it. The accused denies responsibility. He maintains that he was asleep and that the victim injured herself on a vase that had fallen, and he denies that any argument took place. At a pro-forma hearing in November 2024 forensic examination had produced few clear indications either way, and what happened in the flat that evening remains disputed. On 27 August 2026 the prosecution demanded a sentence of eight years' imprisonment. The accused, by then 29, had been in custody for two years. Judgment was scheduled for 10 September 2026.
- Homicide in katwijk, NL
· Convicted · 2 sources
On or about 7 April 2023 a woman was killed in Katwijk, Zuid-Holland, stabbed repeatedly with a dagger or knife in the chest, abdomen, neck and back. The suspect was her former partner. On 7 September 2026 the district court in The Hague convicted the man, then 43, of murder, finding the killing both intentional and premeditated. It sentenced him to fifteen years' imprisonment and imposed a hospital order with compulsory treatment, concluding that a pathological disorder of the mental faculties was present at the time of the offence and had contributed to it, and that the order was necessary to protect the safety of others. The court reached that conclusion despite the defendant's refusal to cooperate with psychiatric assessment. It also convicted him in a joined case of possessing a large quantity of child sexual abuse material, found that the reasonable-time requirement had been exceeded, and awarded compensation to the victim's next of kin, including damages for shock.
- Homicide in amsterdam, NL
· Convicted · 3 sources
A lawyer was shot dead outside his home in Amsterdam on 18 September 2019. In the period before the killing he had been acting for the state's witness in the Marengo liquidation trial. Two men were sentenced to thirty years in prison for the murder. A further group was prosecuted for its part in preparing it: the Amsterdam court of appeal found that some of them had carried out reconnaissance around the lawyer's home and office in the run-up to the killing, and that the group supplied the cars used by the gunmen. On 7 September 2026 the court of appeal imposed increased sentences of up to eleven years and three months on six defendants for membership of a criminal organisation, and on five of them also for the attempted murder of another man who was beaten with striking weapons in Utrecht on 30 October 2019 and suffered a basal skull fracture. One of the six absconded and was arrested in Paris on 16 September 2026. His lawyer said he was expected to be surrendered to the Netherlands shortly.