True crime · 27.04.1996
The commissioner shot by a Lasnamäe lift
Shortly after midnight on 27 April 1996, Mart Laan, a 32-year-old commissioner of the Lasnamäe police precinct, heard of a burglary on Koorti Street and went there himself, though he did not need to. He chased a suspect and cornered him in the house at Koorti 6. The man, Romeo Kalda, hid behind the lift shaft and shot Laan in the leg, arm and stomach and below the heart. Laan fired back, but hit a resident by mistake. His colleagues caught Kalda. Laan died on the operating table at Mustamäe hospital at 0:45. Kalda was sentenced to death, later changed to life. In 2022 a higher court overturned a ruling to free him early.
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Eesti keeles
27. aprilli 1996 öösel kuulis Lasnamäe politseijaoskonna 32-aastane komissar Mart Laan Koorti tänaval toimunud sissemurdmisest ja läks ise kohale, kuigi vajadust polnud. Ta jälitas kahtlusalust ja ajas ta Koorti 6 majas nurka. Mees, Romeo Kalda, peitus liftišahti taha ja tulistas Laant jalga, kätte, kõhtu ja südame alla. Laan tulistas vastu, kuid tabas kogemata majaelanikku. Kolleegid pidasid Kalda kinni. Laan suri kell 0.45 Mustamäe haigla operatsioonilaual. Kaldale mõisteti surmanuhtlus, mis hiljem asendati eluaegse vangistusega. 2022. aastal tühistas ringkonnakohus otsuse ta ennetähtaegselt vabastada.