A shooting incident in Sweden's capital Stockholm on Saturday led to the death of a 15-year-old boy and three injured. A police official said that the motive for this gun violence still has not been ascertained. As per the news agency AFP, Police received reports of the shooting near a square in southern Stockholm in the early evening, and upon reaching there they found two people injured by bullets at the scene. They found the other two injured nearby. The teenager succumbed to his injuries while others were taken to the hospital.
A spokeswoman for Stockholm police, Towe Hagg told AFP, "The person who died at the scene is a boy aged 15." Police later in a statement said that another 15-year-old boy was injured, along with a man and a woman aged between 45 and 65. The statement further informed that two men were arrested within an hour of the incident following a car chase and an investigation into the matter has been initiated.
Apart from this, two other separate shooting incidents took place on Friday in the wider Stockholm area which led to three persons being injured. Sweden has struggled to rein in a surge of shootings and bombings in recent years, as gangs settle scores fuelled by the narcotics trade.
As per the police data, Sweden registered 391 shootings in 2022, 62 of them were fatal, which had an increase of 45 when compared to the previous year.
In another similar incident in the United States, two people were killed and another injured in a shooting that involved a Kansas City Police officer on Friday night in the city of Missouri, US. According to an AP report, the incident occurred after the police called for backup near a McDonald’s restaurant in eastern Kansas City. The officers who responded found five people, the first officer near a white van and three occupants who had been shot. Two of them had been killed and another was injured, the report said.