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DOWN: A woman in her 40s died after her partner’s shotgun exploded in Oppsal in September 2018. The deceased woman takes place here. Photo: Hallgeir Vågenes
A man in his 50s is charged with murder after shooting and killing his ex-girlfriend with a shotgun. He himself believes it was an accident.
On September 26, 2018, a woman in her 40s died after receiving two shots from her ex-boyfriend’s shotgun. The ex-girlfriend in her 50s was arrested and charged with murder.
The Oslo prosecutor has now brought a murder charge against the man.
They believe he loaded a shotgun with two cartridges, before shooting his 40-year-old partner. The shots hit her upper arm and sank deeper into her chest.
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The woman died immediately from the injuries she sustained.
– I wanted peace and quiet
The defendant has claimed from the beginning of the investigation that the shots were fired accidentally when he threw his partner out of the apartment. He said he took out the shotgun and cartridges, loaded the shotgun, and when he later had to bend the shotgun, it went off.
He has explained that he drew the gun only to scare the murdered woman.
The man told VG last year that he and his ex-girlfriend had a disagreement in their apartment that night, and that she is said to have made threats that a gang would come and take him away.
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– I just wanted peace and quiet, I was going to work the next day. I felt threatened, angered and provoked, the man said.
Oslo State Prosecutor Anne Christine Stoltz Wennersten does not want to comment on the case before it goes to court.
Claiming it was an accident
During interrogation, the man has always explained that the shots were fired by accident when he was chasing his partner out of the apartment. In his explanation, the man says that in this sense he loaded the shotgun with two cartridges, and that they were fired by accident when bending the weapon.
In January of last year, the prosecution received a response to the technical investigation of the halge and concluded that the weapon was defective. He concluded that the lever was constantly dislodging during normal folding without touching the trigger.
FORGESTION TECHNICIANS: Forensic scientists worked in the apartment where the woman was shot and killed. Photo: Hallgeir Vågenes
The man now charged with murder was in pretrial detention until January last year, but was released after the technical weapons investigation was completed. The court found that these investigations supported the man’s explanation that it was an accident.
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– I didn’t understand how this could have happened – it just happened. The defendant maintains that this was an accident and that “he broke the shotgun while climbing the race and said bang.”
So far, VG has failed to get a comment from the man’s defender, Bjørn Aksel Henriksen.
Crossbow and rifle found
The man in his 50s is also charged with various violations of the Firearms Law, including illegal possession of weapons.
At home, the man also had a parlor rifle and several hundred different cartridges. In an uninhabited hut he also had a parlor rifle and crossbow, as well as several cartridges.
