A 44-year-old man has been charged with the murder in Agnäs on 18 August.
The accused and the victim have known each other since school age and have also been connected through family ties as the accused had a relationship with the victim's half-sister.
However, the two men's relationship deteriorated sharply in recent years after a quarrel over an inheritance.
"Emergency situation"
During questioning, the accused man says that on the day of the murder he confronted the murdered man upstairs in a house in Bjurholm due to the conflict.
He claims to have been beaten or kicked by the victim and then acted in self-defense by stabbing him with a knife.
The victim then flees down the stairs and the 44-year-old follows and hands out a number of further stab wounds.
The knife has not been found by police.
- In the first place we mean that he has been in an emergency situation and in the second place that the act is in any case to be judged as a murder, not as a murder, his lawyer Robert Svedjetorp tells TT.
Looked at the blue lights
The 44-year-old then leaves the scene in a car and describes in interrogation how he sits at a distance and sees how police and ambulance personnel flock to the scene.
He says, in police interrogation, that he is considering taking his own life after the incident and when he sees the ambulance helicopter leave the property, he decides to try to be shot by the police and goes back to the property which is cordoned off.
He is met by police with drawn weapons who order him to show his hands, he does not obey at first but regrets it and allows himself to be arrested.
On Friday, the man was charged with murder.