The police plan to question the man on Sunday.
The man, who is in his 40s, was arrested just before midnight and taken into custody.
– We are preparing more interviews that we plan to carry out during the day, and then we will start with further technical investigations, says Cecilie Steen, duty officer in the Sør-West police district to NRK on Sunday morning.
The police will also question the taxi driver and the customer who was in the car when it was shot at. And any witnesses.
– Were there witnesses to the incident?
– The police cannot share more information at this time. We work broadly with the hypotheses and have no further details, says Steen.
The taxi that was fired upon in Egersund.
Photo: Heidi Karin Gilje Skog
Negotiations by telephone
The police received a report of the shooting at 9.35pm on Saturday evening. A taxi had then been shot at when it arrived at an address in Egersund. Several police officers moved out.
Shortly afterwards, a negotiator from the police made contact with what was probably the perpetrator by telephone.
While the situation was unclear, the police asked people near Øvre Prestegårds vei in Egersund to stay indoors and lock doors.
In an update at 10.44pm, the police wrote on X that they had isolated the house, and that there were many indications that the perpetrator was at the address.
The police negotiator then continued the dialogue with the man by telephone.
Was met by man with two-handed weapon
– When this taxi arrived at the address it was going to, it was met by a person who came out of a residence and fired, as we understand it, a shot at this taxi. A window in the taxi was smashed, but no one is said to have been injured, said Fenne-Jensen in the Sør-West police district to NRK last night.
Fenne-Jensen told VG that the man must have used a two-handed weapon.
However, incumbent Cecilie Steen will not comment on this on Sunday.
– Which weapon is involved is part of the police’s mapping, she says.
Police on site in Egersund on Saturday evening.
Photo: Heidi Karin Gilje Skog
After shooting at the taxi, the man is said to have entered the home again. The police did not know last night if there were other people in the home at the time.
And they would not comment on whether the police had been to the address before.
No damage
The taxi driver quickly drove to safety after the incident. And the customer who was in the car probably got to safety on foot. There are no reports of any injuries.
2023-11-26 08:46:48
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