Sweeping and indiscriminate fire was opened with three guns. The criminal targets survive – but Adriana, 12, is hit and dies at McDonalds in Norsborg. Now Maykil Yokhanna, Benjamin Mahdi and Hassan Mohammad are sentenced to life imprisonment. Here are the men who shot the twelve-year-old girl dead while she was out walking her dog: Maykil Yokhanna, 31 Background: Started his criminal career as a teenager in the Stockholm suburb of Vårby, was forcibly taken into custody and placed in a HVB home. Has since been convicted of several serious crimes. For several years, he has been part of a bloody gang war with the Vårby network and has himself named his network May, which he leads. Yokhanna has also been connected to a criminal network in Västerås for several years and has been called the Västeråstorpeden in the media. He has been subjected to several murder attempts by the Vårby network, which is considered to be the motive for why he sat in a car and shot at a group of men at the place where Adriana was instead hit by the shots. Since May 2021, he is serving a four-year prison sentence for aggravated weapons crime and aggravated unlawful threat in Västerås. In July 2021, the 31-year-old was also sentenced to one year in prison for a serious drug crime, a crime committed together with the Södertälje network. In September 2021, he was again convicted of serious weapons offences. This for having handled the weapon Adriana was killed with in a music video. The Court of Appeal increased the district court’s sentence from one year to 2.5 years in prison. Sentence: Sentenced to life in prison for Adriana’s murder and seven counts of attempted murder on the same occasion, one prior attempted murder, preparation for murder, preparation for public destruction. Benjamin Mahdi, 24 Background: In the police investigation and chats that the investigators came across, he is called one of “Yokhanna’s boys”. He has been singled out as a running boy in Stockholm and Malmö’s gang war. In 2019, he was acquitted in another trial about a gang murder of an 18-year-old man in Malmö, but was convicted of serious weapons offences. The man has posed with guns in rap videos. Since early July 2021, he has been in custody on suspicion of the murder of Adriana. Sentence: Sentenced to life in prison for Adriana’s murder and seven counts of attempted murder on the same occasion, preparation for murder, assault, preparation for public destruction and aggravated weapons offences. Hassan Mohammad, 32 Background: Has previously been convicted of both aggravated assault and drug smuggling before he robbed a bank in the small town of Kil in Värmland as a 21-year-old. In 2016, he was sentenced to just over two years in prison for serious weapons crime in Örebro. He has been in custody since the beginning of December 2021 for the murder of Adriana. Sentence: Sentenced to life in prison for Adriana’s murder and seven counts of attempted murder on the same occasion, aggravated weapons offense and preparation for murder.
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