Son suspected of slaying parents in Stavanger
Ann Törnkvist - [email protected]
Published: 2 Jul, 2013 CET.
Updated: Tue 2 Jul 2013 10:39 CET
A 22-year-old Norwegian man is believed to have killed his parents, before himself dying in a car crash on Monday evening. His mother was still alive when police arrived on the scene.
Norwegian police called a press conference on Tuesday morning to confirm that the couple's son, and the suspect in the double murder, died in a car accident near Bjerkreim later on Monday night.
The police were called to the scene just after 8pm on Monday, reported newspaper Verdens-Gang.
"We got a message that a woman had been killed in a house, when we arrived we could confirm that a man was dead while a woman was seriously injured," said police spokeswoman Karen Mork.
The 52-year-old woman was taken to hospital where she was pronounced dead.
She and her 55-year-old husband had five children together.
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Norwegian police called a press conference on Tuesday morning to confirm that the couple's son, and the suspect in the double murder, died in a car accident near Bjerkreim later on Monday night.
The police were called to the scene just after 8pm on Monday, reported newspaper Verdens-Gang.
"We got a message that a woman had been killed in a house, when we arrived we could confirm that a man was dead while a woman was seriously injured," said police spokeswoman Karen Mork.
The 52-year-old woman was taken to hospital where she was pronounced dead.
She and her 55-year-old husband had five children together.
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