The woman, who was in her 60s, was found dead inside the door to her home in Akalla in northwestern Stockholm at around 7 pm on October 22, after a neighbor discovered that the door was ajar. It later emerged that witnesses had heard shots at 3 pm.
Recently, three people, two men in their 40s and 50s, and a woman in her 30s, were charged with involvement in the murder. According to the indictment, the 40-year-old man rang the doorbell and shot the woman with a pistol when she opened the door. The weapon was allegedly hidden under a folder.
Connections to the network
The trio was also charged with attempted murder of a woman in Kista earlier the same day.
The shooter allegedly rang her doorbell as well. The woman looked out through the kitchen window and saw a man standing outside with a folder in his hand. She did not open the door and he left.
Both women are relatives of people that the police link to a criminal network in the area around Husby and Akalla. However, a clear motive has not been established, according to prosecutor Alexandra Bittner.
The investigation shows that the shooter was instructed over the phone about where to go and that the task was to shoot the first person who opened the door. The address where the murdered woman lived was allegedly number six on the list, according to information from an acquaintance of the shooter who he later told about the incident.
We know that they have been to several places that day than the two that are covered by the indictment, but we do not know how many doors they knocked on, says Bittner.
Confessed on Instagram
In a conversation with an unknown person that the suspected shooter himself recorded, the plans are discussed three days earlier.
The man says that he will shoot regardless of who opens the door, even if it is a child. The other person objects that he should not shoot "some five-year-old boy or something like that". But if it is a woman, or a man "or a boy or a youth", it's "just go for it", the person continues.
The police tracked down the shooter when he posted a picture of himself on Instagram where he explicitly took responsibility for the murder. At first, he denied it in questioning, but later confessed.
It's eating away at me inside, he said.
He posted the picture because he "wanted to get it over with".
The man said that he had taken on the task of doing something for payment, but without harming anyone. It escalated quickly and when he wanted to back out, it was not possible, he claims.
A total of 44 people died as a result of gun violence in Sweden in 2024.
Most murders occurred in the Stockholm region (14), followed by the Southern region (11) and the Eastern region (8).
Furthermore, 66 people were injured in shootings.
A total of 296 shootings were registered during the year.
A confirmed shooting is an incident where projectiles have been fired with a cartridge-loaded weapon and where there are traces of this, or where there are more than one independent eyewitness. The shooting must also be illegal and not apparently unintentional.
Source: The Police
