Several residents and neighbors in the multi -family house were awakened the night between June 2 and 3 last year in Hageby in Norrköping and sounded an alarm to the police.
“There is something in the stairwell that happens or in some apartment, it thunders properly, it melts and things are broken,” said a woman in the alarm call.
The police went to the address. The patrols felt the smell of gunpowder but first found nothing.
Then the police received testimony that the glass crusher was heard from the back of the building. When you got there, a crushed glass pane was discovered to a patio door. The police reacted to the TV standing on.
When the two policemen looked into the apartment, through the destroyed box, they were met by a brutal sight.
Photo: Police investigation
Hid in the ditch-bargains in IKEA bag
In the middle of the living room was a stone that had been used to crush the window pane.
Below the sofa were two bodies in a blood pool. Both were shot with a large number of shots, in the head and over the body, with a coarse -caliber weapon. The victims, two young men, had died directly on the scene.
The police called reinforcement and a large murder effort started. Minutes later, a patrol that stood along a motorway in Norrköping discovered that a young black -clad man with a hood – the same signal element on a person who was seen leaving the murder scene – passed by on an electric kick bike. He also carried on a blue IKEA bag.
The patrol tried to stop the man – who instead fled. After a short search, he was found when he “lay and pressed on the edge of the ditch”. In the bag was a magazine and ammunition, and nearby was an automatic carbine.
The man, who is 20 years old today, had cut injuries to his hand and leg. When forensic technicians examined the murder scene, his blood was found on glass shards in the patio door.
“The victims must have known strong death anxiety”
The 20-year-old is now charged with two cases of murder and serious weapons crime, and two other peers are suspected to have acted as assistants. All three have denied crime.
The trial started in Norrköping District Court today.
The prosecutor who investigated the double murder has called the deed a brutal execution.
“Although it is a shorter course of events, the victims must have been able to feel strong death anxiety,” says state prosecutor Lisa Åberg.
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The theory: Not the target – a coincidence
One of the police’s theories is that the motive for the shooting is linked to the fact that one of the murder victims is related to, and lived with, a person who has been relevant in the Norrköping conflict between the Kalonätverket and a criminal group in Mariannelund.
According to the prosecutor, “speaks a lot” because the other murder victim “was in the apartment by chance and that he was not intended from the beginning.”
– The shooter has no relationship with the victims and I assume that he has performed the act on behalf of someone else. The man’s reason for undertaking the assignment has not emerged in the investigation, but the work to determine who or who gave him the assignment continues, says Lisa Åberg.
The trial is expected to last for seven days.
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