The Stockholm police do not want to go into details about those arrested, neither gender, age nor what they are suspected of.
The murder took place at 05.30 on Monday morning. A man in his 40s was found badly shot outside an apartment building in Bredäng in southern Stockholm. He later died in hospital.
A forensic investigation has been carried out for several hours in the residential area and the police have had intensive investigative work. The police do not want to comment on what exactly led to the arrests.
According to information to TV4 Nyheterna, one of the leads that the police are investigating is that the shooting may have been honor-related. The victim has previously been subjected to honor-motivated violence.