18-year-old student was shot to death on an SL bus - five people are now being charged

It was a Wednesday afternoon in March this year that the alarm came in - there was gunfire on board an SL bus right next to Tyresö gymnasium. It would turn out that it was an 18-year-old student who was shot and taken to hospital. The following day, the police announced that his life had not been saved.

The 18-year-old had just boarded the bus and was on his way home when he was shot. The act was witnessed by several other students. When DN visited the area, it was told how the 18-year-old's classmates broke down when they were reached by the news of the death.

Five people have now been charged with varying degrees of involvement in the crime, which the local newspaper Mitt i was the first to report.

According to the lawsuit, the shooter is a 21-year-old man. He admits to the crime and allegedly shot the 18-year-old in the head on board the bus. The 21-year-old is also charged with aggravated weapons offences. The prosecutor Sara Malmhester demands that he be deported if he is convicted.

She says that there are many indications that it is a so-called misfire.

- It has also emerged that the murder has several connections to other shootings that took place in the Stockholm area and Malmö during the month of March. Among other things, the crimes are suspected to have been carried out on behalf of the same client, says Sara Malmhester in a statement.

The instigator is suspected of having planned and ordered the murder on the bus. However, the man has not been found and is therefore not charged. He is detained in his absence. In connection with the arrest, it was stated that he is suspected of a number of different serious crimes, including the instigation of two murders in Vårby and Malmö respectively. Those murders are suspected to have been committed by the same 15-year-old girl.

Four other young people are charged with aiding and abetting murder. They are suspected of helping the shooter by driving him to a hotel room in Flemingsberg where he is said to have stayed in the days before the murder. After the shooting, the 21-year-old was allegedly picked up and driven to a so-called printer's apartment in Eskilstuna. All co-accused deny wrongdoing.