One arrested after fatal shooting

A father of a small child in his 35s was shot to death in a townhouse area last night – a man in his 30s has been arrested on reasonable suspicion.

The local police area chief says that there have not been so many shootings in Linköping previously.

– These shootings have shown great indifference to others. I can absolutely not ensure that third parties are not injured, but we do everything we can to prevent it from happening, says Tim Johansson.

The police are investigating in case the detainee has links to gang crime and previous shootings in Linköping .

The man was arrested on Wednesday morning in a different part of the city than the one where the father of small children was shot. He was later arrested by prosecutors, the police announced at a press conference in the afternoon.

– We were called out at 01.15 on a suspected shooting. There are several who call in. We find an injured person who is transported by ambulance to hospital and who is then confirmed dead, says the police’s acting local police chief Tim Johansson.

Father of small children known to the police 7 the Lambohov area. He is a father of small children in his 35s, living in the area.

The man was seriously injured and died at the hospital. His relatives have been notified.

– He is known to us from before and has been convicted of several serious violent crimes. Since then, he has been obsolete for us for a long time. But lately he has not been unknown to us anymore, says Tim Johansson.

It was a big police raid. A road was blocked off and forensic scientists have investigated the suspected crime scene.

Parking lots belonging to the terraced houses have also been searched by police with a dog.

The police do not want to comment on any motives or threaded connections.

– The investigation must show that. But of course we work broadly and according to certain hypotheses. We have a strained situation here in Linköping where we have had many shootings.

Does the deed have any connection to the shooting in Skäggetorp?

– It is a hypothesis. We can not confirm it but it is clear that we are looking at other violent crimes that have occurred before.

Prosecutor: “low suspicion”

The Public Prosecutor’s Office does not want to comment on the case before deciding on to arrest the arrested man.

“At 12 o’clock today Wednesday, a man, born in 1988, was arrested as a reasonable suspect – the lower degree of suspicion – for the murder. . No later than Saturday at 12 o’clock, the prosecutor must decide whether the arrested man should be requested to be detained or not “, it is written in a press release.

More shootings than before

Several people have been shot in Linköping recently the time. In mid-September a man was shot in Ryd center , in August a gang member was shot to death inside a restaurant in Skäggetorp – weeks before were killed and injured two boys

.

– I think it’s awful that one has gone so far. I do not want this to happen,

said local police chief Ann-Christine Rehnström after the shooting in Skäggetorp

.

Then the man, who had connections to a criminal network, was shot in the middle. during the day inside a center full of visitors.

– These shootings have shown great indifference to others. I can absolutely not ensure that third parties are not injured, but we do everything we can to prevent it from happening, says Tim Johansson.

The police work among other long-term with security-creating measures together with the social services and the municipality.

– We have not had so many shootings before. Locally it is very new. This category of crime that is unjustifiable and is not part of a society where people take other people’s lives.

The suspected crime scene in Linköping is cordoned off after the murder. Photo: TT NEWS AGENCY

Published: Published: 06 October 2021 at 14.15

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