Suspect for murder on SL bus - arrested when he got stuck in an elevator

For a long time, serious crimes were mostly carried out under the cover of darkness. The investigation into the murder on board an SL bus in Tyresö on 25 March this year shows that that time is over. Here, an 18-year-old man is shot to death among crowds of travelers in the early afternoon, in the middle of everyday life.

The crime occurs right next to a high school where the 18-year-old attended and several students witness the murder. Both the shooting and the panic afterwards are caught on video by several different surveillance cameras.

Shortly after 3 p.m., an order comes from the assassin via the encrypted messaging app Signal. The command to the 21-year-old accused of the murder cannot be misunderstood. "The hood, brother, shoot him in the hood," reads the call from the signature Jihadi John.

Several witnesses state in questioning that the shooter's gun initially clicks several times. The suspected shooter tries to get the weapon in order by turning on the magazine from below. After a few tries the gun works. The 18-year-old passes out on the floor of the bus.

A teenage girl later tells the police how she gives her cardigan to a teacher from the health and care program who uses it as a pressure bandage to stop the 18-year-old's bleeding.

- I panic, I can't hold back, I cry, the girl tells the police.

After the 18-year-old lays down on the floor of the bus, the suspected shooter rushes from the crime scene. On the way out, he puts his hand on the glass of one of the bus doors and leaves a clear impression.

A student later tells police that he sees the suspect's eyes clearly.

- He looked very stressed. I was afraid he was going to attack me because I saw him, says the student.

A witness on the bus tells the police that the shot 18-year-old may not have been the intended target.

- He saw wrong and shot the wrong person, says the witness, who believes that the 18-year-old is a kind guy who is liked by everyone.

When the prosecution is brought, the prosecutor Sara Malmhester says that everything very well indicates that it was a misfire.

After escaping from the bus, the 21-year-old, according to the investigation, gets to Huddinge in a taxi. He then moves on to a so-called printer's apartment in Eskilstuna. Three days after the murder, a strange coincidence leads to his arrest.

On the afternoon of March 28, the 21-year-old calls an elevator company and tells them that he is stuck in one of their elevators.

- Urgent, I can't breathe, he says to the operator.

The 21-year-old seems to want to give the impression of being panicked.

- It's the elevator that sounds, it's going to fall down, hurry up, continues the 21-year-old and states where he is.

The police, who spy on the 21-year-old and eavesdrop on him, head to the printer's apartment. When the suspected murderer is photographed in connection with the arrest, he smiles in the picture.

The murder suspect is initially very tight-lipped. But after some questioning, the 21-year-old admits that it was he who shot on board the bus.

- I will go straight to the point. I admit to this crime. No one knew that a particular murder would take place that day, says the 21-year-old and claims that he carried out the deed on his own without the involvement of any other people.

The interrogator asks who ordered him to shoot the 18-year-old in the head.

- I am using my right to remain silent, replies the 21-year-old.

Another four young men have been charged with aiding and abetting the murder on the bus. They all deny wrongdoing.