" I think if he shoots now it will end very much ... then I can die ".

The words come from the police charged with misconduct in connection with the shooting of Eric Torell. During the fourth day of trial, both he and the colleague who were charged with neglecting to hear someone else's death or misconduct were heard.

Both police officers, who worked for 8 months and 7 weeks, testified about the panic and fear they felt when the 20-year-old, who had Down syndrome, was mistaken for a dangerous violent man and shot dead.

"Eric absolutely could not understand the dangers"

However, the day did not start with the police, but with Eric Torell's mother Katarina Söderberg, who with tears in her throat told about the son's difficulties.

- Erik absolutely could not understand the dangers. His starting point was always that everyone is kind because he didn't know anything else. He could not imagine things that he had not been with as ordinary people. Eric was severely mentally retarded, she said.

It also became emotional when Katarina Söderberg told about the toy weapon that the police mistook for an automatic weapon and the defense has described as a replica.

Erik Torell should have received the weapon when he was 5 years old and according to his mother it should have basically been in a box under the bed ever since.

- Eric had basically stopped playing with toys and a year earlier I had thrown several garbage bags with toys. But obviously I had forgotten this. Unfortunately, it was left in that box.

During the day, the questions came to the two police officers (another police officer, an interim chief, have been prosecuted for malpractice), primarily to deal with the actual firing and whether they saw that Eric Torell had turned around or not. Two of the shots hit Eric Torell in the back.

Gave collected testimonials

The two police officers gathered as they gave their testimony. At the same time, they had difficulty remembering details, something they explained with stress and fear.

- I understand that I'm running straight in this person's line of shooting. When I do this, I feel like it's sticking to my whole body. And thinking that if he shoots now it will end very much ... then I can die, said the police accused of misconduct.

Police testified how Eric Torell should have targeted him and his colleagues. Shortly thereafter, the firing broke out.

- This is where it starts to pop. I'm terribly scared. I understand that this is a life-threatening situation where this person is being shot between me and my colleagues.

"Don't know who started shooting"

Even the police who are charged with neglecting the death of another or a misdemeanor describe the course of events as extremely quick and threatening. He told me that he felt that Eric Torell was aiming at one of his colleagues.

- Then I feel extremely pressured. Then I think now he shoots NN. Then I choose to shoot. As I shoot, my vision becomes sharply tapered.

The police also found it difficult to answer the question of whether he perceived it as his colleagues having started shooting.

- I don't know who started shooting and who stopped. That's what I did that I focused on, became the answer.