The school attack on Campus Risbergska began at 12:31 p.m. on February 4 last year.
Less than fifteen minutes later, the perpetrator, 35-year-old Rickard Andersson, had shot ten people dead and then taken his own life.
Many of the police's efforts worked well. One weakness, however, was that it took a long time before life-saving efforts could be initiated, according to an evaluation that has now been completed.
One of those murdered may have lived for up to 30 minutes after being shot. Another of the victims lived for an estimated 45 minutes and managed to make and receive several phone calls.
"We don't know whether it would have been possible to save their lives. But there is information that one person lived for 45 minutes, so it is clear that there might have been a possibility," says Erik Nord, who is head of the investigation unit in Police Region West.
The point is that we need to start practicing these things too.
Needs completion
According to the evaluation, what delayed the rescue was, among other things, information that there could be more perpetrators. The work was also made more difficult by Risbergska's size and by Rickard Andersson's use of smoke grenades.
According to Erik Nord, the police's so-called PDV method (ongoing deadly violence) basically worked well.
However, the method needs to be supplemented with faster life-saving interventions, he believes.
This work is already happening in several places, but only locally. What I suggest is that we develop a national method for it, says Erik Nord.
“Saved lives”
At the same time, he praises the school, which implemented its own PDV training in the fall of 2023.
It saved many lives. I believe the perpetrator had the intention, opportunity and motivation to kill more people. But he simply didn't find more people to shoot, thanks to the shelter that was made, says Erik Nord.
The evaluation will now be reviewed before decisions are made on any measures.
"It is a balance between risk, especially for emergency services personnel, and the required speed, and it is something we need to take into account in our collaboration with emergency services and healthcare in the future," says Johan Olsson, head of the national operational department (Noa), in a statement on the police website.
Ten people were killed and six injured when 35-year-old Rickard Andersson opened fire inside Campus Risbergska in Örebro on February 4, 2025.
The first alarm of gunfire came at 12:33 p.m.
The first police officers arrived on the scene just over five minutes after the alarm was raised. When they entered the school, they encountered smoke and were fired on by Rickard Andersson.
Shortly after the police arrived at the school, at 12:45, Andersson took his own life.
The emergency police operation was called off after about an hour, at 1:40 p.m., when the perpetrator was found dead with several weapons next to him.
Source: Police
