– He called me the father, says the “foster father” to Dagbladet.
He talks about the 33-year-old man who became Tuesday shot and killed by police in Therese Street in Bislett, after ending up in a confrontation with police.
The man was last year sentenced to compulsory mental health care, and was on leave on Tuesday then he walked barefoot and bare-chested around Bislett with a knife, where he also attacked the police.
It is confirmed four offended persons in the case – one woman, one man and two policemen. None of the people are seriously injured, according to the police.
– The boys came home with him in 2004. He had nothing, but with us he could come and go as he pleased. And because of that, he has valued us very highly.
The “foster father” – who wishes to remain anonymous – tells Dagbladet that he never formally adopted the 33-year-old, but that he still sees himself as a kind of father figure.
Man shot by police in Oslo
– Was a lot alone
He describes the now deceased man as an active, cheerful and social guy, who unfortunately has had to spend a lot of time alone.
– He has had it tough – in all possible ways. But as the social guy he was, he acquired a social network that helped him with both board and lodging.
Although the family opened their home to the then 16-year-old boy in 2004, the “foster father” believes that it was not enough.
– Especially not for him. He was not strong enough to grow up alone.
He says that the man was taken to Norway by his aunt after his father was killed in Chechnya, and that he was often alone at the asylum reception center before he met the “foster family”.
– Shocked that he was out
– I do not think there was anyone who perceived the problem in psychiatry. There were many who wanted to help him, but you fall short when you can not be with him all the time, says the father figure.
Previously convicted of attempted murder
The 33-year-old has previously been convicted of attempted murder in the open street.
According to the verdict of December 2020, the man have stabbed Lehnnon Austria Dominguez nine times at Ankerbrua in June 2019. During the same period, he threatened several people with a knife.
After the incident, the man was sentenced to compulsory mental health care.
In the judgment from December 2020, the court has concluded that the man could not be punished because he was insane when the actions took place. The experts assumed that the man’s schizophrenia disorder led to the psychosis.
Dead knife man previously convicted of attempted murder
The “foster father” says that he lost contact with the 33-year-old after the knife attack in 2019.
– I did not have much contact with him after that. I was a little frustrated with him, and he probably did not dare to see me on the island either. But the boys had contact with him, and visited him both in Dikemark and in Oslo prison.
He says that he spoke to the 33-year-old via FaceTime on some occasions, but that he did not visit him in Oslo.
– When you are as social and open as he was, then you not only meet good people, he says, but adds that the 33-year-old has also been in environments in Oslo that were not bad.
– Should become an actor
The man went, among other things two years at the Theater Academy and has acted in a well-known TV series, as well as two feature films.
– He was going to be an actor, and he was going to Hollywood. Then he would ask me over, and then it was “payback time”.
Played in famous TV series
The “foster father” also says that the 33-year-old has always been an active guy.
– He was a crack. He wrestled, but he had problems with his knee so he gave up. I have also learned that he did a bit of martial arts in Oslo, he says.
“Foster father” tells the story of a man who was always in a good mood, but who never had money.
– He saw how the rest of us lived. The boys drove nice cars, had ladies and eventually had children. He was not “there”. He always had to be pampered when we were at the restaurant.
– We have taken him on many trips, and he did not hurt to ask to take in a roof. He happily helped with everything, and would never have paid. But we paid in a way with board and lodging, he says.
The incident in 2019 was not the first time the man ended up in the police spotlight.
Men was also convicted of bodily harm in 2018. According to the verdict, he then hit a man in the head and kicked him in the body in central Oslo in 2017. He was then sentenced to 90 hours of community service.
According to the verdict from 2018, the man must have been addicted to both alcohol and drugs at the time of the crime, which must have happened on the way home from a party.
– Averted a dangerous attack
The man is also said to have been admitted to a voluntary detoxification and motivation center for drug addicts, according to the verdict.
In 2015, he was sentenced to 21 days in prison for violence against a police officer and for insulting public servants.
– He struggled
According to the “foster father”, the man moved to Oslo in the period 2012-2013.
– We noticed that he had a hard time there. Among other things, we received some calls from the environment in Oslo that he was struggling, and on one occasion we picked him up and drove him to the emergency room to try to get help.
He says that the man received good follow-up from the health service, but that he was not structured enough.
– I think he has received good follow-up, but that he may have skipped a few hours. I think it was probably because he was not structured enough, and that he may not have fully understood the seriousness, even though he has asked for help himself.
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The father figure of the deceased 33-year-old believes that Oslo prison may not have been the best thing for the man.
– Dikemark did a great job, and when he was healthy enough to go a step further, he was sent to Oslo prison, which was probably quite unfortunate. That was probably not the best thing for him.
– Was undergoing treatment
The head of Intelligence and Investigation (FEE), Grete Lien Metlid, says that the 33-year-old had recently gone on leave before the incidents that happened on Tuesday morning.
– He was currently undergoing treatment in the health service and follow-up. What we know now was that he was on leave from a health institution when this incident happened. This leave started on Monday, says Metlid.
She also states that the man had an address on Bislett that he was to stay at during the period he was to be on leave.
The “foster father” says that the 33-year-old must probably have intoxicated himself in connection with the knife attack on Tuesday.
– It is quite clear that it is a direct connection with drugs. I have never seen him affected by drugs, but he walked around with a large knife and behaved as he did in 2019.
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