It is unclear whether the perpetrator understood at the time of the incident that it was the police.
In Sweden The 17-year-old has been sentenced to eight years in prison for a police murder in Gothenburg in June and three attempted murders.
The young man was arrested in July for probable causes of murder and attempted murder. He still denies having committed a crime.
Dead the police were just over 30 years old and fairly new to the profession.
Police and his colleagues were on the move on motorcycles due to a shooting in the Biskopsgården area. At the intersection, policemen were shot at with a machine gun. The dead police were shot and he died of his injuries at the hospital the next day.
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Several people saw or heard the shooting and shared their experiences during the trial. It is unclear whether the shooter understood that it was a police officer. Police wore uniforms, but there was no police marking on the motorcycle. He also did not have a warning vest.
The day after the murder, clothes, a mouth guard and an electric scooter were found in the forest area, about a 700-meter walk from the murder scene. The clothes matched the witnesses’ descriptions of the author. There was also a weapon that turned out to be a murder weapon.
Two days after the murder, a 17-year-old boy who was later charged was arrested. His dna was in clothes found in the woods.
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