The Furuset shooting: Video shows the shots – VG

Outside Ikea, customers move as usual in the car park. Then comes a luxurious Mercedes. A man gets out of the car and starts shooting with an automatic weapon.

VG can now show a video that will show parts of the shooting incident in the car park outside Ikea on the evening of Tuesday 21 February.

The man who shoots has previously been convicted of a serious crime. He fires several shots at three men whom he is supposed to have agreed to meet in the car park.

The video shows that the convicted man in his 40s fires shots almost immediately after he gets out of the luxury car. The three men retreat calmly, while the shooter in his 40s moves towards them.

After a few seconds, the shooter walks back towards his own car, while the offended men are said to have sought cover behind a Tesla.

Police attorney Anne Marie Hustad now confirms to VG that there are three people who have the status of offended in the case.

VG has submitted the information about what appears in the video to the police, but they do not want to comment on it for the sake of the investigation.

Lawyer Vidar Lind Iversen, who is assisting the offended man in his 30s who was shot in the leg, has seen the video, and says it speaks for itself. He does not wish to comment further on the matter.

Christian Flemmen Johansen is legal counsel for one of the other two victims in the case.

– The video is of modest quality, and I am unsure whether it gives a complete impression of the situation, writes Johansen in an SMS to VG after the video has been published.

– Having said that, it is obvious that what the victims are subjected to here is unsustainable and life-threatening. Regardless of what motive the shooter in question may think he has, this is unsustainable and punishable.

Johansen says that his client experienced the situation as brutal, but that he handled it in a good way and acted with composure.

– He sought cover, but was hit. He has been clear that he kept calm the whole time and got out of the situation safely, says Johansen to VG.

Conflicts

The shooter in his 40s eventually drove from Ikea on Furuset and was arrested by the police a few hours later at Rånåsfoss in Viken. Back in the parking lot at Ikea were several empty casings. These empty casings matched the gunner’s weapon, a Czechoslovakian automatic rifle – called the Vz. 58.

This rifle was seized by the police in connection with the arrest of the shooter.

VG is aware that the police have received information that the meeting at Ikea in Furuset must have been arranged between the shooter and the victim on the same day, but that the background for the meeting being desired goes back somewhat in time.

One month before the shooting incident, one of the offended men is said to have bought a luxury watch from the shooter.

The buyer of the luxury watch reportedly found out the watch was fake and wanted to find a solution to clean things up with the shooter.

The shooter in his 40s will, for his part, claim that the conflict is not about a watch.

Four days before the shooting incident at Ikea, the offended man is said to have turned up at the shooter’s home in a fashionable residential area in Oslo. A child’s birthday should have been held in the villa on the same day.

The police’s investigation has also uncovered other underlying conflicts that the shooter is said to be involved in. These conflicts are about money and money demands and involve people other than the aggrieved watch buyer, VG is informed.

The shooter in his 40s is now charged with attempted murder. His defender, lawyer Øystein Storrvik, has previously stated to VG that the client has admitted the shooting, but that he does not plead guilty to attempted murder.

– He has said in questioning that he shot to scare, said Storrvik.

VG has presented the defender with the video that is published in this case.

– What emerges from the video corresponds to a reasonable extent with what my client has explained that he shot to frighten and not to kill.