Police in France have arrested a suspect in the fatal stabbing of former Rolls-Royce designer Ian Cameron.
Cameron, 74, was found dead at his home in Herrsching, southern Germany, near Lake Ammersee after he was stabbed by an attacker on July 12.
A 22-year-old Serbian man was arrested by French special forces on July 18 at an apartment northeast of Paris, the Upper Bavaria North police force said in a statement on July 19.
Cameron's wife, the designer Verena Kloos, fled the property and alerted police.
Police said the unnamed suspect was tracked from Herrsching via Munich, Innsbruck, Austria, and Zurich to France.
"The valuable information provided after the public manhunt meant that we were able to quickly identify the suspect," Manfred Frei, the head of police in Fürstenfeldbruck, near Herrshing, said in the statement.
No motive for the attack was given.
BMW said it was “deeply shocked and saddened” to hear of the death of the designer, who worked for the company for much of his career.
Cameron retired from Rolls-Royce in 2012 after overseeing the design of a range of ultraluxury cars that reinvented the brand after BMW took over the British marque in 2003, starting with the Phantom. Cameron joined BMW in 1992.
"Ian played a significant role in shaping Rolls-Royce from when it was first acquired by BMW Group and moved to its home at Goodwood, West Sussex," Rolls-Royce said in a statement.
Rolls-Royce CEO Chris Brownridge repeated the statement on LinkedIn, saying he was "saddened" by the news.
After leaving BMW he set up a freelance design consultancy called Ian Cameron Design Partners.
