Seeing that the clothing was made of a mixture of domestic and wild animals’ skins, he may have been an ‘outsider’ and not a settler in a clan village.
His wound was in the back shoulder and could be indicative of ‘running away’.
He could possibly have been a thief, stealing domestic sheep, goats and cattle for food and clothing. The settled farmers got fed up with his praying upon their animals and they took action to stop him.
“His last meal was composed of ibex and red deer.” says the article, which would not indicate an agronimous diet of a settled villager.
He may have been escaping from the villagers’ wrath and subsequently died of hypothermia in an ice cave he hid in....................
If your enemy is hungry, feed him. If he is naked, clothe
him. Love one another. Have mercy.
He was not deemed to be running away, because he had just had a full meal, too large to have been consumed while in flight.
Oetzi also had with him a copper axe, the oldest one known in existence, that would have been a sign of great wealth and status. Had he been an outsider, the person who killed him would have certainly made off with the axe, UNLESS by being in possession of it, he would be making himself a suspect in the murder. He also broke off the shaft of the arrow in Oetzi’s back. That may well have been to prevent its being identified as one of the killer’s arrows had the body been found. He was covering his tracks.