Sastamala|The police suspect that the man shot at the police with a firearm or bow.
Internal Finland police suspects that the man may have shot at the police who were on the bank of Sastamala’s Kokemäenjoki on Tuesday. The police say in a press release that they stopped a man who was moving on a boat in the evening, who is suspected of having threatened another man on the beach in Sastamala’s Keikyä with a gun earlier on Tuesday evening.
The police suspect that the man may have shot at the police with a firearm or bow. The police caught the man on the beach, where he moved on the police’s order. According to the police, the arrest took place without the use of force.
Anyone was not injured in the situation, and bystanders were not in danger, according to the police.
Evening News says that according to its information, the man arrested by the police has a previous criminal record. According to IS, the now 50-year-old man was convicted of murder and attempted murder in the early 2000s. In addition, according to the newspaper, he has been charged with, for example, other violent crimes and several cases of drunk driving.
The police received an alert about the incident around 7 pm on Tuesday.
The police are investigating the possible shooting at the police as an attempted murder and the suspected threat with a weapon in Keikylä as an illegal threat. Regarding the weapons in the man’s possession, the police are investigating the case as a firearms crime.
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