Suspect in the murder of Tottenham defender Serge Aurier’s brother hands himself in to police

A suspect in the killing of Tottenham defender Serge Aurier’s brother Christopher has reportedly handed himself into French police. 

Christopher Aurier, 26, was fatally wounded in the early hours of Monday after being shot in Toulouse outside a nightclub and he was pronounced dead in hospital.

His killer initially fled the scene and was believed to be on the run but, according to French outlet L’Equipe, a man turned himself into Toulouse police on Tuesday evening, less than 48 hours later after the murder.

The brother of Serge Aurier (pictured), Christopher, was shot dead in Toulouse outside a nightclub in the early hours of Monday

Christopher Aurier, 26, was reportedly found in the street in Toulouse with a gunshot wound

Pictured: Kin’s nightclub in the Thibaud area of Toulouse, where Christopher Aurier was reportedly shot

It is claimed the man handed himself over to local police at 6pm local time on Tuesday night and ‘confessed to having killed the victim’. 

Local residents called the police after finding a man lying on the ground with a gunshot wound to his stomach outside Kin’s nightclub. 

It is claimed by another French outlet, La Depeche, that the motive behind the incident may have been to do with a ‘love dispute’.

Christopher was also a footballer, in the French fifth division with Toulouse Rodeo. He had a trial with Championship side Brentford back in 2011 but was not signed.

Like Serge, he came through the ranks at RC Lens but did not make the breakthrough to the highest level. 

Christopher was ‘known to police for small crimes’, local media sources said. In 2017, he was arrested on suspicion of attacking a prostitute in Lille in northern France. 

In 2017 Lille cops arrested him after a 20-year-old local sex worker claimed two men had stolen her phone and credit card in December of the previous year.

The two men were reported to have threatened the woman in her flat with a fake handgun and tear-gassed her when she refused to hand over money. 

More to follow.