* At 18.13:XNUMX PM Wednesday evening, police receive a report that a man is shooting people with a bow at the Coop store in downtown Kongsberg.
* Five minutes later, the first patrol spots a man shooting the policemen with several shots, then fleeing.
* According to the police, the man probably kills five people after this confrontation. According to the police, all victims are random people.
At 18.47 p.m., more than half an hour after the start of the attack, a man is arrested a short distance from the place where the tragedy took place. According to the police, the man used two other types of weapons in addition to the bow.
* Espen Andersen Bråthen (37) is charged with five murders, and injuring 3 other people. Accordingly, the charge is likely to be extended, according to the police.
* The man confessed to the act committed. He has been to several interrogations with the police and is described as cooperating.
* He is a Danish citizen but born and raised in Norway. The man lived in an apartment near where the attacks began.
* PST claims that the acts of violence appear to be terrorist acts, but is not currently accused of terrorism.
* There have been several disturbing reports in the past about a 37-year-old who converted to Islam a few years ago.
Facts about the Kongsberg murders
* PST claims they were first notified of a man in 2015. In 2017, they received several notifications after he posted an online video in which he appeared with vague threats and said he was a Muslim. This movie has not been classified as criminal.
* In 2018, PST assessed the 37-year-old and informed health officials that there was a risk of him committing a small-scale attack. The PST said they did not consider him an ideological extremist, but he had mental problems. It is not known how the health service complied with this warning.
* The police have several hypotheses, one of which is that the cause of the attack is disease.
* The man has contacted the health service several times over the years. It is subject to full forensic observation in order to clarify the issue of sanity.
* He has been detained for four weeks and is now transferred to a closed healthcare facility as his condition worsened. The police are currently waiting for the opportunity to interview the accused.
* So far, over 50 witnesses have been heard in the case. Many interrogations of witnesses are still ongoing, so the police currently do not have too many details about the course of events.
* The case attracted a lot of international attention, and many foreign media outlets appeared in Kongsberg to cover the case.
