Murder rate jumps
 The flag at Kapp School flew at half-mast on Monday, after a first-grader was believed murdered by his father. PHOTO: JON OLAV ANDERSEN / TOTENS BLAD Police collected evidence at the sight of an execution-style murder in Heimdal over the weekend. PHOTO: RUNE PETTER NESS |
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Police in Østre Toten reported Monday that two persons were found dead in a home at Kapp, on the shores of Lake Mjøsa. The victims included a man and a little boy, and police suspect the man killed his young son and then himself.
"We think this involves a family tragedy," Jens Petter Værland of the Vest Oppland Police District told Aftenposten.no.
The flag was flying at half-mast at Kapp School, where the little boy had just begun in first grade. Both bodies were being sent for autopsy on Monday.
Police in Heimdal, just south of Trondheim, meanwhile, continued to investigate the execution-style murder of a 46-year-old Norwegian-Somalia man. He was found with five gun-shot wounds near what police believed was his own car on Ringvolveien in Heimdal.
"It sounded like a liquidation," said one witness who heard the shots around 1:30am Saturday. Police had few clues to pursue and were asking for help from the Somalia community and the public.
The day before, on Friday, a 67-year-old man and his 55-year-old wife were found dead in a house in Hemne. Police have charged their 21-year-old son with the double-homicide.
On August 16, an Italian citizen was stabbed to death in a flat at Nordstrand in Oslo. A 42-year-old man, the former boyfriend of the owner of the flat, is charged in the case, which police believe was fueled by jealousy.
Two children and a woman were also found dead in Oslo's Grefsen district on August 14. The woman's 44-year-old husband has been charged with the triple murder. A 61-year-old man and a 73-year-old man were also found dead and believed murdered earlier in the month in Oslo.
Justice Minister Knut Storberget had reported a decline in the murder rate in July, compared to the first half of 2007. The homicide rate in August has turned that trend around.
Nina Berglund
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