A 19-year-old man was shot dead by two masked shooters in Norsborg.
Several men and boys are now being sentenced for involvement in the murder.
The 19-year-old was in a clubhouse in Norsborg in Botkyrka municipality on the evening of April 5 last year and was playing cards with his friends.
Surveillance footage showed how the young man left the premises on foot at 19.19.
At the same minute, two black-clad and masked people were seen walking from a parking lot, along the houses and towards the place where the 19-year-old was.
At 19.20 the two people were seen running back towards the car park.
The 19-year-old lay shot dead in what is described as an execution. He was hit in the head and torso by a total of ten shots from two different weapons.
Six people were charged after a long police investigation for involvement in the fatal shooting.
Today, the Södertörn district court announced its verdict against the men and the teenagers.
The law’s severe punishment
Two men, aged 20 and 22, and a 16-year-old boy were convicted of murder. The teenager and the 20-year-old were the shooters, while the 22-year-old was the driver and drove the getaway car with fake license plates that was waiting in the parking lot. The 22- and 16-year-old also planned the murder together.
The sentence for the men was life imprisonment.
– The district court has found that the 22-year-old man who acted as a driver should also be sentenced for murder instead of aiding and abetting murder. This is because the investigation has shown that he has actively participated in preparing and planning the murder together with the 20-year-old shooter, says the chairman of the court deputy chief councilor Kian Amraée in a press release.
Both the 20- and 22-year-olds were also convicted of kidnapping, aggravated rape, assault in court and assault in a separate case. This after kidnapping a man in southern Stockholm and subjecting him to humiliation.
Slack life due to age
The second shooter, the 16-year-old boy who was 15 at the time of the crime, received youth care for murder and serious drug offences.
– The investigation has clearly shown that the 15-year-old was one of the two shooters who recklessly shot the plaintiff dead in the middle of a densely built-up apartment area. The murder is so serious that the punishment for an adult is life imprisonment. But with regard to the legislation and practice that we have in the field at the moment, the murder cannot in practice result in a sentence other than a closed youth care of two years and seven months for the person who was 15 years old at the time of the act, says Kian Amraée.
Another 16-year-old was sentenced for aggravated protection of a criminal after taking one of the shooters’ phones so that it “would not leave traces behind in the telecommunications network and thus make detection more difficult.” He was also convicted of drug offenses and serious drug offences. The punishment was youth supervision for six months.
Another 20-year-old was charged with having a firearm in the days before the crime and then giving it to the killers. He was convicted of aggravated weapons offences, but acquitted of accessory to murder. The penalty was part of an earlier sentence of seven years and ten months in prison.
A 31-year-old was sentenced to eight months in prison for serious weapons offenses after having a firearm with him.
The district court writes in the verdict that “the murder was carried out in a cold-blooded manner where two perpetrators chased the victim, first shot him when he tried to escape and then approached when
he lay on the ground and executed him.”