Swedish police shoot dead suspected killer
Published: 1 Feb 11 07:53 CET | Print version
Online: http://www.thelocal.se/31758/20110201/
Police in Eskilstuna in eastern Sweden on Tuesday morning shot dead a man suspected of killing his mother with a knife.
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"We suspect that he had murdered his mother," said Eskilstuna police press officer Fred Wallén.
The man was ordered by police to drop the knife but he refused to comply. When police fired a warning shot he was hit.
The 26-year-old was rushed to hospital in Eskilstuna in a very serious condition and it is unclear when exactly he died, Wallén said, explaining that it has not been ruled out that he was already dead when the ambulance arrived, or that he died on the way to the hospital.
The detailed circumstances of the knife attack and the shooting remained unclear early on Tuesday morning.
"Everything happened so fast," said Wallén.
Wallén added furthermore that the investigation into what happened has been delayed because the only two people involved are dead.
"Witnesses are to be interviewed and a forensic examination of the scene has to be completed."
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No sh*t, Sherlock!
Just about every law enforcement agency uses jacketed hollow point ammunition.
As an example, imagine you are a passenger aboard a US aircraft at 35,000 feet and the sky marshal has to fire at a hijacker , would you want something that would go through the bad guy and put a hole in the fuselage?
I have personally seen Swedish police draw their firearms while arresting a man at a petrol station where I was parked with my three children sitting on the back seat. Bullets, children and tens of thousands of litres of petrol are not good bedfellows. It makes me wonder if Swedish police firearms training is limited to watching Dirty Harry DVD's and playing with their Playstations.
Or maybe he was dead before the "warning" shot was fired so they can all go out for fika and no one is to blame!
What does the extremely unusual situation of an air marshall have to do with normal cops on the ground?
In any case, Swedish cops should really get tazers.
Air marshals are police, too. The same rule, however, applies on the ground.
The police shoot a suspect and it goes straight through him or her and into you or a loved one. As a potential recipient of that scenario ( we all are) I would prefer that a heavy slug is not being used.
You may be correct about tazers but I am reading too many stories like this:
http://www.cbc.ca/canada/british-columbia/story/2007/11/14/bc-taservideo.html
That was not a warning shot! That was a DEATH penalty.
If an investigation proves the police acted incorrectly, I will eat my words. Gobble, gobble. Until then, I am on the side of the law.
You are absolutely entitled to your opinion. 50,000 volts may have be the way to go. I don't know why the Swedish police evaluated it and decided against adopting it. In this particular case the answer will never be known unless the delay in the investigation is to hold a seance.
If you noticed, I posted to describe why the jacketed hollow point round is now used in lieu of the old slug. Nothing more.
@The Local
"Eats, shoots, and leaves.' vs. 'Eats, shoots and leaves'.
They're as funny as Keystone Cops, and are more like Mall Security Guards.
A Total Waste of Taxpayer Money.
But whether or not he was, the cops came onto the scene after the mother had already been stabbed to death. If he had charged at the cops with the knife, I could understand them shooting him in self defense. But even the cops don't say that he was threatening any of them.
Firing at him as a first resort, even as a warning, sounds reckless to me. Why not allow the man to calm down, and try to reason with him? Or maybe call for medical help? The use of lethal force was uncalled for.
You do not deserve a reply but I just wanted to say you mind is narrower than a needle pin.