It was late in the evening on December 29 last year that residents of an apartment building in Östhammar municipality raised the alarm that a neighbor had shot in their home.
When the police arrived at the scene, the man refused to put down his weapon and instead opened fire on the officers, according to the indictment. The shooting then continued sporadically for several hours. On one occasion, the accused was met after the police returned fire.
“They feel that he is shooting at them and then fires a shot that hits the man in the stomach, but without damaging any vital organs,” says District Attorney Kristoffer Sahlin to the newspaper.
About an hour later, he gave up and left his apartment unarmed at five in the morning. The weapon he used is said to be a black powder model from the 1800s, which is not subject to a license. According to the prosecutor, however, it could have caused life-threatening injuries.
The man denies any wrongdoing. His defender Angelica Dipeders writes in an e-mail to UNT that her client has large memory gaps but that he “at no time had any intention of trying to kill or injure another person”.