It was just before 2 a.m. on October 4 last year when the boy opened fire on Södra Kungsgatan in Gävle.
He fired a total of nine shots, injuring six young people. However, a total of 29 people were at risk of being hit, according to the prosecutor.
We have assessed how many people may have been at risk of being hit, and based on that, we consider a total of 29 people to have been in serious danger, prosecutor Jenny Örn said when she brought the evidentiary case against the boy, who was too young at the time of the shooting to be sentenced to any penalty.
According to the district court, however, it has not been established that the boy intended to kill anyone or tried to hit anyone else. Therefore, he is only considered guilty of aggravated assault against the six people who were shot in the evidentiary case.
“Having nightmares”
Isidor Vistedt has represented some of the gunshot victims, among others.
Those who were hit by gunfire still have physical problems, especially scars that remind them of what happened, he says.
Otherwise, there is variation among the plaintiffs. Some have fully recovered mentally, while some still have nightmares and sleep problems and continue to adapt their behavior. For example, they avoid going out in Gävle at night.
During the investigation, the police found traces of two weapons, one of which has not been recovered. The other, a Sig Sauer pistol, turned out to be a police weapon that had been stolen from an unmarked police car in Stockholm in 2018.
Six months after the shooting, the weapon was found by some middle school children in a forest grove in Uppsala.
The Sig Sauer pistol, marked "Belongs to the police", which was one of the weapons used in the shooting.
Gang leader suspected
The shooting is suspected of having been ordered by the criminal network Foxtrot. Ali Shehab, who has been identified as a leading figure in the gang, is suspected of having ordered it.
He was sentenced earlier this year to life imprisonment for other crimes in Iraq, where he is also a citizen.
In addition to the shooting in Gävle, Ali Shehab is also suspected of, among other things, instigating three murders last year in Lund, Gävle and Norsborg.
He is still being held in absentia in several Swedish courts, and the cases are still open with us, says State Prosecutor Helene Gestrin.
But now he is serving his life sentence. We have not yet received clear information about what that means in reality, but one can expect a very long sentence.
Corrected version: An earlier version contained incorrect information about the crime classification that the district court had reached.
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