The murder of a 19-year-old in Kvarngärdet, Uppsala, this summer has been described as a public execution.
When the young man was lying injured on the ground, the shooter is said to have stepped forward and fired another fatal shot at close range.
Corresponds to life
A 16-year-old boy from Västerås was arrested in Stockholm just a few hours after the murder.
He has confessed to the crime and is now being sentenced by Uppsala District Court to four years and six months in prison for murder. He is also being sentenced for preparation for murder, aggravated weapons offences and a violation of the Act on Flammable and Explosive Goods.
The 16-year-old will also be deported from Sweden for life.
In a press release, Uppsala District Court writes that the sentence for an adult would be life imprisonment.
The 19-year-old murder victim was not the intended target.
“The investigation has shown that the shooter had been in Uppsala for several days searching for his intended victim, and that his primary target was someone other than the 19-year-old who was later shot to death,” senior prosecutor Mia Sjöstedt said in a press release.
The 16-year-old was caught on surveillance footage cycling around Uppsala for several days in search of a man. The district court has found that the crime was linked to organised crime and that the boy took it upon himself to carry out the murder in an encrypted app.
Mia Sjöstedt has said that the theory is that the perpetrator was directed to various locations to make so-called test purchases of drugs to lure the plaintiff.
One convicted, one acquitted
Another boy the same age as the convicted murderer has been acquitted of aggravated aiding and abetting a crime, while a 33-year-old man from Stockholm has been sentenced to five years in prison for an aggravated weapons offence. He provided the 16-year-old with the murder weapon.
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