On Wednesday, the trial against the 18-year-old who has been charged with the murder of father Mikael in a pedestrian tunnel in Skärholmen in April last year continued.
In the interrogation, the 18-year-old has claimed that he test-fired the weapon earlier in April, but denies being at the scene of the murder.
In the courtroom, he says:
I have a troubled background. I have hung out with rough people, so to speak, but I am not a murderer.
However, he refuses to tell his version of what happened in the pedestrian tunnel.
I don't feel comfortable going into details, he says.
Mikael's son tells in a video interrogation that he was standing outside the swimming hall and saw when his father went back to the pedestrian tunnel to confront the men.
I knew something bad would happen when he went up to them. I was scared, says the son according to DN.
The murder suspect, 18, then pulled out a pistol which he aimed at Mikael's head. The 18-year-old then fired a shot at Mikael's feet, and when Mikael ran towards the 18-year-old, two new shots were fired and Mikael fell lifeless to the ground.
Another 18-year-old, who is charged with gross obstruction of justice, admits to being at the scene when Mikael was shot. But says he didn't see much of what happened, as he was looking at his phone.
The background to the murder early on Monday evening, April 10, was, according to the indictment, that the man confronted three youths in a pedestrian tunnel in Skärholmen in southern Stockholm.
A verbal altercation arose between Mikael and the youths in the pedestrian tunnel, which ended with the fatal shooting.
The murder is described in the indictment as particularly ruthless, since the man was shot in front of his son, who was about 60 meters away.
The accused 18-year-old is said to have fled on a bicycle after the murder, on which his DNA was later found.
About two months after the shooting, what is believed to be the murder weapon was also found in a basement storage room in Skärholmen. On the pistol, DNA from two people was found, including the 18-year-old.
The man, 17 years old at the time of the incident, is linked by the police to a criminal network called the Skärholmsfalangen.
He has long been moving in criminal circles and the police assess that he was criminally active already at the age of 13, which is stated in a LVU decision from 2021.
Source: The preliminary investigation
