Police officer is being investigated for murder after the police shooting in Troms – news Troms and Finnmark

The police have stated that their officers experienced the situation as life-threatening when the man drove towards them in a wheel loader in Lavangen. The police fired several shots at the man. The special unit has investigated the case as grievous bodily harm resulting in death, but has now changed the coding to murder, reports Dagbladet. It was the farmer Hans Arne Nystad (49) who died during the incident. It was Hans Arne Nystad who died in Lavangen on the night of Friday. He was a local farmer. Photo: private – This is in accordance with our report in the case, as I have previously pointed out that the only correct thing to do is to treat the case as a murder case, says lawyer John Christian Elden to Dagbladet. Lawyer Gry Schrøder Berger, who represents the suspected police officer, says she will wait to comment on the case until the Bureau has made its decision. Police car overturned According to the special unit, the incident occurred at approximately 01.45 on the night of 9 December 2022, on the deceased’s farmyard in Sør-Troms. A police patrol with two officers arrived at the scene in an official car, after they had been asked to help health personnel who were on their way to the address. The police were subject to a general fixed armament, and the officers thus carried a pistol. The deceased is said to have been in the cab of a wheel loader when the police arrived at the scene. The wheel loader was then set in motion, and drove towards the uniformed police car, they state in the press release. The wheel loader is said to have then hit the police car, causing it to overturn. At this time, one of the officers was inside the police car. The other officer, who has the status of a suspect, got out of the police car before it overturned. The person who got out of the car is said to have fired a larger number of shots. The first ambulance arrived at the scene a few minutes later. The pictures show the wheel loader that the man is said to have been driving when he was shot by the police on the night of Friday 9 December. Video: Hanne Wilhelms / news



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