It was shortly after midnight on June 28 that a police patrolman was alerted to the parking lot outside a grocery store in Dalvik as there was a dispute between a man and his wife. The couple had separated and the man had for some reason become angry and, according to the woman, brought the couple's two children with him in a car despite being affected by alcohol. She agreed to meet her husband at a parking lot in the center of Dalvik.

In the parking lot it should have been a nuisance and the husband should have taken a neck turn on his wife so that she ends up on the ground. She gets off and she and the children run over to her car. According to the woman and several witnesses, the man must have sat in his car and then driven into the rear of the wife's car at a fairly high speed. Then he drives at high speed from the spot.

Police patrol find the suspect

In the parking lot up at Hallbystugan, a police patrol finds the suspect car. The driver is the suspect and he tells one of the policemen that he will cooperate. According to the policeman, he smells strongly of alcohol.

When asked if he has anything dangerous in the car, the man replies that he has an uncharged shotgun in the back seat.

The man is now being charged with assault, attempted assault and gross drunkenness. The man has in interrogation denied that he has beaten the woman. He also claimed that it was the wife who backed into his car.

Neither the children nor the wife should have sustained any more serious physical injuries after the incident.