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The two friends played on the same football team and were on their way to the prom when they got into a fight.
It ended with one of the boys stabbing his 15-year-old childhood friend to death with a mora knife.
Now he is wanted in custody on suspicion of murdering the boy.
On June 8, the 15-year-old boy had dressed in fine clothes, a black suit and low fin shoes.
With only days left in the final term, all the friends would gather for the ninth prom before they would part ways.
But the 15-year-old boy never made it to the prom. Instead, he was stabbed at a gate next to an apartment building in Älvsjö, south of Stockholm.
According to the police, the boy was probably attacked in the stairwell or in a laundry room before he was found by passers-by who alerted SOS.
Arrested in custody
A 15-year-old boy wearing a white t-shirt entered the Stockholm district court room 8 together with his defense lawyer on Saturday afternoon.
He looked down at the table as the prosecutor began to read out the charges against him – suspected of murder.
The detention hearing was held behind closed doors.
The suspect and his lawyer disputed the detention request and the grounds for detention.
For the classmates, the news came a few hours later – at the prom. That same evening, a boy was brought in for questioning. He is now suspected on probable grounds of murder and has been requested to be detained by the prosecutor.
According to information to Aftonbladet, the boy is 15 years old.
The background is supposed to be about a conflict between the two friends and according to information to Aftonbladet, the boy who is now suspected has killed his friend with a mora knife.
“Would be prom king”
The suspect and the murdered boy both played on the same soccer team. As recently as Tuesday, the two friends were in the same match squad when they were to play a match against another football team in Stockholm.
A girl who went to the same school as the 15-year-old has previously told how the news of the death came as a shock.
– He had so many friends. There had been talk of him becoming the school’s “prom king”.
On Thursday evening, several people, who were going to the ball, gathered at the crime scene.
He was very excited to go to the prom and have fun with us. I can’t understand that he is no more. He was funny, joking, very caring and loving. You could always talk to him if you were sad, he always listened, said a friend of the dead boy.