Lena Rörick Lundgren, first vice chairman of the social committee, made the decision on the care at 22 on Friday, she tells SVT News.
The boy was supposed to be home at 18.00 and the parents called the police at 19.30. As I understood it, a search effort was initiated immediately.
The last thing she heard was that the police were out looking for the boy.
I woke up in the morning and read the news. I became ice-cold.
Knew about
According to information to SVT, parents, social services and police had been informed that "some form of violent act" was planned by the boy, who shortly after the act turned 14 years old.
Everyone knew that something was going on, but failed to stop the boy, says SVT's crime reporter Diamant Salihu in Current Events.
Expressen has previously reported that the suspected boy had earlier on Friday said things in school that indicated he was planning to commit a violent act, but he then toned it down as a joke.
When the family could not get in touch with the teenager, they became worried and contacted both social services and the police, according to the newspaper's information. Social services got in touch with the boy, but then he did not want to say where he was or what he was doing, according to Expressen.
Both the incident and social services' actions will now be investigated, says Anna Bakken Krantze, unit manager at social services in Gävle, to TV4 News.
Social services in Gävle will now investigate both the incident and their own actions, and an incident analysis will be carried out.
We need to look at risks and weigh them against each other, she says.
Sees gang connection
The shooting on Södra Kungsgatan occurred just before 2 am on Saturday. Six people were hit and injured in the lower body, but no one is said to have had life-threatening injuries.
The police have stated that the incident is gang-related. However, those who were shot are not linked to gang environments by the police and are not believed to have been intended targets.
