Demands Life Imprisonment for Young Female Gang Shooter

A young female gang shooter is suspected of murdering a 17-year-old boy in Norrköping. When the trial ended on Thursday, the prosecutor demanded life imprisonment. The murder is a pure execution with a close-range shot to the head after luring the victim to the location.

» Updated: October 02 2024

» Published: July 18 2024

Demands Life Imprisonment for Young Female Gang Shooter
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A young female gang shooter is suspected of murdering a 17-year-old boy in Norrköping. When the trial ended on Thursday, the prosecutor demanded life imprisonment.

The murder is a pure execution with a close-range shot to the head after luring the victim to the location.

In December last year, the now 20-year-old woman arranged to meet the teenager in the Marielund district of Norrköping to buy a pair of headphones. Instead, she pulled out a pistol and shot him dead, according to prosecutor Anna Hjorth.

She should be convicted of murder, attempted murder, and aggravated weapons offense. For these serious crimes, I believe that life imprisonment is warranted, says Hjorth during her final argument.

More and more young women and girls are suspected of serious crimes in gang environments, but the 20-year-old is the first woman to be prosecuted as a shooter in a gang murder.

She is from Gävle, but has stated in interrogations that she left the city due to threats and moved to Norrköping.

Was on the enemy list

The murdered 17-year-old's name is on a list of "enemies" of a network based in the Hageby and Navestad districts. The enemies are linked to a rival network in the Marielund district.

The case includes shootings at apartment doors on two consecutive November evenings. The addresses are homes to families of other young men on the enemy list.

They shoot directly into homes where many people, both adults and small children, have been present, awake and moving around in the apartments. One of the children was present at both shootings, says Anna Hjorth.

The woman has admitted to holding the pistol on one occasion, but denies intent to harm. She also denies the murder and claims that she arranged to meet the 17-year-old and was present at the location, but that someone else shot.

When she was arrested two weeks after the murder, a headphone box with the same serial number as the one the victim had put up for sale was found.

Too short

Her lawyer Viktor Banke believes that the murder charge should be dismissed and points out, among other things, that she is too short to have been able to fire the shot that hit the significantly taller victim in the eye at the right angle.

Everything speaks against my client being the shooter, he says during his argument.

A 24-year-old man and a 16-year-old boy are on trial, denying charges of attempted murder and aggravated weapons offense, suspected of the second shooting at an apartment door. The prosecutor is demanding at least 14 years' imprisonment and closed youth care, respectively.

Since May last year, there have been around 20 violent incidents and attempts, including shootings, explosions, and kidnappings linked to the conflict in Norrköping.

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