It was in March 2025 that the 16-year-old and three of his friends were on their way home from the gym in Fruängen in southern Stockholm.
A lone gunman followed them and opened fire with a pistol at an underpass. At least nine shots were fired at the group. One of the friends was hit in the leg and the 16-year-old was hit in the head.
The prosecutor described it as "a pure execution."
Deported for ten years
Now a 17-year-old boy, who was 16 at the time of the crime, has been sentenced to ten years and ten months in prison for murder and two counts of attempted murder. He will also be deported after serving his sentence and will not be allowed to return to Sweden for ten years.
"The crimes he was convicted of were so serious that the re-entry ban should not have been time-limited, but it was imposed out of consideration for his age," the court wrote in a press release.
The prison sentence would have been life if the perpetrator had been an adult, according to Chief Councilor Anders Larsson.
According to Södertörn District Court, it has not been possible to determine the motive for the shooting. The victims were not previously known to the police. The intended target is believed to have been someone else.
"Instead, most of the evidence indicates that they were in the wrong place at the wrong time," the court writes.
Three others are also sentenced
The 17-year-old had contact by phone with someone or some people in connection with the murder - and suddenly the person or people he was talking to decided that the young people should be attacked.
Three other people were also convicted of attempted aggravated protection of a criminal for booking a getaway taxi for the shooter. Two of them were sentenced to prison; the sentences were added to the long prison terms they are already serving. The third, a 15-year-old boy, was sentenced to eight months in closed juvenile care.
