The perpetrator’s approach does not indicate that he has targeted any specific victims, according to the police.
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So Rickard Andersson selected the victims – according to police
– What we can see is that the affected, both the injured and the deceased, they have varied staff. There are different origins, there are people with foreign citizenship and there are people with different ethnicity, says Niclas HallgrenDeputy Regional Police Chief in Bergslagen to Sweden’s Radio Studio One.
The deed was committed at the Risbergska school in Örebro. There has the suspected perpetrator Rickard Andersson been enrolled twice, but according to the police he should not have collected any points.
The school is also believed to be linked to the subject.
– What we see is that the common denominator for the victims is that they are students and employees at the school, we cannot see that there is any other common denominator that makes the selection what it gets, says Hallgren.
Rickard Andersson’s purchase before the massacre
The suspected offender must have prepared carefully for the act.
We see a certain planning lately in 2025. Where he has prepared as we see it with the purchase of ammunition and smoke grenades or smoke compartment. A clear desire to commit this crime.
– The technical investigation further shows that more than 50 shots have been fired during the shooting. In addition, a large number of unused ammunition was found near the suspect, who was then dead.
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