Košice police officers published other details of the dramatic intervention from Košice, during which there was also a shooting. As stated through social network status, police were posted on verifying the announcement from citizens who were concerned about their life and health, because according to the notification of one of the petrol stations, the person who was supposed to carry a weapon – a machete should have been located, Moreover, it was a person who did not pay for fuel several times.
“The suspect began to escape from the police, so the police began to chase her. However, the person did not respond to repeated calls to stop the vehicle and continued to escape the streets of the city district. On one of the streets, the police stopped the vehicle, However, the driver continued to refuse to obey their legal challenges, pursued active resistance, and, moreover, he pulled a machete out of the car and drove it out of intervening cops, ” Informed the Košice regional police.
The police were forced to break the window on the vehicle. Using the means of coercion, the man got out of the car. He continued to behave aggressively, and he and the machete were running at the cops and threatening them to kill them. Then he ran to their company car he wanted to escape from the place.
According to the police, the man did not respond to other coercive means and multiple use of a non -grim weapon – the electric stun gun Taser did not respond and drove the machete to one of the intervening cops. The second policeman fired from the service weapon and hit the suspect. The suspect was taken by the RZP crew to the hospital.
“By lustration in the information systems of the Ministry of Interior of the Slovak Republic, it has been found that the suspect has been banned from driveing motor vehicles by 2038. Whether a suspect was under the influence of addictive substances will be known from the results of a toxicological examination, “the police said.
“Given the severity of the situation, the director of KR PZ Košice, the director of the East, District Director and other police officers who document the event and perform the acts necessary to properly clarify the act are located at the scene of the event. The case was taken over by the investigator for further proceedings, to which the police officers’ procedure during the service intervention was handed over to the investigator during the service. The Regional Directorate of the Police Force in Košice is not competent to provide more information about this event, “the police said.
