A 15-year-old boy was stabbed to death on his way to the school prom at around 4pm on Thursday, according to witnesses dressed in finery. A boy of the same age was arrested on Saturday on suspicion of the murder.
The detention proceedings were held in Södertörn district court on Saturday afternoon. The boy suspect was wearing a white T-shirt in the courtroom and looked calm and collected.
The suspect and his lawyer, Peter Skeppstedt, contested the detention request and the grounds for detention.
However, the district court chose to grant the prosecutor’s request and the boy was detained on probable cause on suspicion of murder.
It was around 4 pm on Thursday that the injured boy was found at the gate of an apartment building. Later that evening, the boy of the same age was arrested, who is now in custody on probable cause on suspicion of murder.
The dead boy was found at the gate of the property, but police suspect he was stabbed inside the stairwell or in the laundry room.
Several locations adjacent to the house were cordoned off for technical examination.
The two were friends and previously played on the same soccer team, according to the suspect’s lawyer.
“Worried about the future”
At the English school in Älvsjö, where the now deceased boy attended, a crisis team was deployed on Friday.
Two neighbors that TV4 Nyheterna spoke to feel worried and sad after the incident.
– You get worried about the future, we have small children ourselves. You can’t keep track of friends and school at all, so of course you get worried. You think about the boy’s family too, we know them a bit like neighbors and it’s a nice family, says Youssef Sayf Eddine, who lives in the area.
Even Fatima Eriksson, whose mother lives in the same gate as the murdered boy, has difficulty grasping what happened.
– I feel sadness, I think a lot about the family. I must have bumped into them in the elevator as my mother lives here in the same gate. It’s just tragic, when it happens so close too. It is my home, it is a human being and a young person at that. That shouldn’t happen.