Pistol aimed at police officer in car park: "I was ready to shoot"
An Oslo police officer had his finger on the trigger when the 35-year-old man suspected of double murder pointed a pistol at him at Grønland. The incident took place on the night of 3 September 2025.
Close to firing service weapon in car park at Grønland
On the night of 3 September 2025, an Oslo police officer stood in a car park at Grønland with his finger pressed so hard on the trigger that another half a millimetre would have fired a shot. The man he was pointing his weapon at, a 35-year-old who was later charged with double murder in Gothenburg the same night, had pointed a pistol at him from a distance of two to four metres.
Politiforum.no has obtained access to the officer's incident report and interview report from the police officer who apprehended the suspected man, and presents the sequence of events in detail.
"I felt threatened by the suspect. The suspect's behaviour and actions are very frightening. In the situation described, I was at one moment ready for – and convinced that – I would have to shoot the suspect to immediately stop his threatening behaviour," the officer writes in his incident report.
Started with report of fleeing Mercedes
The incident began with a message on the radio from the East Police District about a black Mercedes that had evaded a stop at the border at Svinesund at speeds approaching 200 km/h. The police officer and his partner were near the road the car had travelled and positioned themselves to intercept the driver if he drove towards Oslo city centre.
"His understanding of the situation at that point was that it was a car that had evaded police at very high speed on the motorway, and that he had refused to stop because he would not stop for the toll," the incident report states.
What the police officer did not know at this time was that two men had been shot and killed in a car in Gothenburg just hours earlier, and that the driver of the Mercedes would later be charged with these murders.
When the message came that the car was driving towards Grønlandsleiret, the police officer suspected that the driver had sought shelter in the car park at Grønland. Patrolling into the car park from Tøyenbekken confirmed the suspicion.
"At the end of the car park on the first floor, towards Smalgangen, I saw the top of a black car. From the car I saw some white smoke coming from the engine. Behind the car I saw a man wearing a white t-shirt and black scarf or similar, which covered his face," the officer explains.
The pistol appeared in the corridor
The man, hereafter referred to as "the suspect", was bent down in the boot of the car with the boot open. He threw a bag over his shoulder and began to run towards Smalgangen when the police officer approached.
A corridor leads from the car park out towards Smalgangen, a pedestrian street at Grønland. The suspect tried to get out through a glass door at the end of the corridor, but the door was locked. He began to hit the glass to smash through.
"I first thought the suspect was hitting with a stone or similar. After a short time I observed a black pistol. It was dark outside, which made it difficult to see that it was a pistol the suspect had in his hand because of poor contrast in the background," the police officer explains.
The officer drew his service weapon and asked the 35-year-old to drop the pistol. The suspect nevertheless pointed the weapon at the police officer's upper body.
"I asked the suspect to drop the weapon. I perceived the suspect as threatening," the incident report states.
"Very high on a scale of 10"
In the interview, the officer describes the situation as "very high on a scale of 10" from one to ten. He remembers that the suspect appeared "pumped up" in the body and in "fight mode" when he hit the window, and that the behaviour suddenly shifted from offensive to defensive when he turned slightly to the side and lowered the pistol.
The officer noticed that the trigger guard was pressed so far in that he was half a millimetre away from firing the shot. The sensation still remains in his index finger, according to the interview report.
"The suspect held the pistol pointed at me for a brief moment before he lowered the pistol again," the officer describes.
The suspect eventually lay down on his stomach. The officer was alone in the corridor with him until his partner arrived after a few seconds.
Gut feeling about empty pistol
In retrospect, the police officer is left with a "gut feeling that the suspect surrendered because he discovered that the pistol was empty".
"The gut feeling is based on the suspect showing persistent strong willingness to evade police and a perceived change in his behaviour after he lowered the pistol," the officer says.
He cannot remember whether the 35-year-old pulled the trigger when he pointed the pistol at the officer, and emphasises that the suspect expressed no desire to shoot.
"The area is under video surveillance. It should be possible to see where the suspect's finger was placed afterwards," he says.
The police analysed the video recordings from the car park afterwards. The conclusion was that the video files were not of good enough quality to answer the question of whether the man pulled the trigger or not.
"There is no information in the investigation which supports that the suspect should have pulled the weapon or that there should be an audible click," says the prosecutor in the case, Karin Lindell.
The Mercedes was smoking
When the police officer approached the car in the car park, he also observed that the Mercedes the 35-year-old had been driving appeared to be catching fire, as there was heavy smoke coming from the engine.
The 35-year-old is charged with the double murder in Gothenburg, where two men were shot and killed in a car during the night between 2 and 3 September 2025, hours before the confrontation in the car park at Grønland.
Source: Google News NO — Oslo