– A minute passed from when the police ran in until I heard shots.

The boy’s father (39), who was shot by police on Tuesday, leaves behind a wife and several children. A witness says it was only a short time since two police officers ran into the house until he heard shots.

The 39-year-old man lived partly to himself in Bolkesjø’s apartment and partly with his wife, with whom he has a one-and-a-half-year-old son. When the police moved on Tuesday afternoon, they went to Bolkesjø. In the apartment the shots that took his life fell.

Attorney Tollef Skobba of the Hasle Law Firm has been appointed Assistant Counsel for the deceased’s wife. I had a longer meeting with him on Wednesday afternoon.

– A police representative called her and was informed that her husband had been shot and was dead. She is very critical of delivering that message in that way. I wish this had happened in a better way, Skobba tells Aftenposten.

On Wednesday night, it was not possible to get a comment from the southeast police district.

The wife is affected by what happened.

– She was shocked to have received this message and cannot understand how it could have happened. She hopes there will be a full, fair and good investigation. She says she hopes “the bully gets what he deserves.”

Police moved in after two of the man’s colleagues were concerned about him and searched his home.

Varden writes that on Tuesday the 39-year-old called a colleague at the workplace in Notodden. The man must have been on sick leave for a period and he must have suffered mentally.

The conversation worried the colleague and led the colleague to go to Bolkesjø together with another from the company.

– When they entered the apartment, he approached them with an ax. He didn’t threaten them with the ax, but they still sensed the situation to make it safer to get out. He shouldn’t have followed them out of the house, the owner of the company where the 39-year-old worked tells Varden.

Then the colleagues called the police. What happened after the police entered the apartment is not publicly known.

– I saw that two policemen came running and asked two men outside the house where he was. Then they ran towards the house. Maybe it took less than a minute until I heard several shots, a witness tells Aftenposten.

The witness cannot say with certainty how many shots there were, but he can say “at least three”.

– About a minute after hearing the shots, an ambulance arrived, and then an ambulance arrived. Then there were four police cars and an ambulance helicopter, the witness says.

While this was happening, the wife of the 39-year-old man did not realize what was happening and that the man must have walked towards someone with an ax.

– The wife has been concerned to make it clear that she does not perceive her husband as a dangerous person. She describes the man as a good and loving father. He has had some challenges, but nothing that could have led him to such a situation, says attorney Skobba.

For his part, the lawyer hopes that the Investigation Office will carry out a thorough investigation.

– The usual thing in homicide cases is that those involved are arrested, placed in preventive detention and isolated. Although the Norwegian police have the opportunity to use force, I hope that the same principles apply when officials are suspected, that they are isolated until an explanation is given.

The special unit for police affairs moved in with investigators Tuesday afternoon. They were assisted by forensic technicians from Kripos.

– How many policemen were on the scene, inside and outside the house, when the shooting occurred?

– There were four officials there. Two of them have the status of suspects and were questioned until Wednesday night, says Helle Gulseth, acting head of the investigation department in eastern Norway.

– Have other weapons been found in the apartment besides the seized police weapon?

– I don’t want to say any of that now.

– Was anyone else in the apartment when the incident occurred?

– It is part of what we are now trying to clarify.