The boy – who was 16 years old at the time of the crime – was also charged with attempted murder and preparation for murder, but the Kristianstad district court acquitted him of those charges.
Two other men – aged 33 and 27 – were charged with incitement to murder or aiding and abetting murder, but both were acquitted. A 22-year-old man is convicted of weapons offences, but acquitted of the charge of aiding and abetting murder.
The court emphasizes in a press release that the evidence is not sufficient to convict someone of, for example, preparation for murder and incitement to the same crime.
“All the evidence presented by the prosecutors in this part is so-called circumstantial evidence and through this it is not proven that there was a criminal plan to kill another person,” says councilor Catharina Månsson, the court’s president.
Prosecutors have previously stated that the fatal shooting took place within the gang environment in Kristianstad.