‘Child murderer’ aged 12 detained in Sweden after ‘capturing unsuitable particular person in £20k hit’
Gangland shootings and bombings that have plagued Sweden’s biggest cities have spread to quieter suburbs and towns, shattering its reputation as a safe and peaceful nation
A 12-year-old child assassin has been arrested for allegedly shooting the wrong person in a botched £20,000 hit job.
The boy is accused of murdering a 21-year-old man in a drive-by shooting in Malmö, Sweden, last Friday.
Local media reports the child shot the wrong target and was supposed to hit someone else in the vehicle.
Police believe the victim was shot while travelling in an Audi with his friends travelling along Galgebacksvägen in the Oxie area at around 10.30pm when the gun horror happened.
The fellow passengers then drove into the city centre and dumped the car on a residential street in Hindby, it is reported. They then contacted another person, who alerted cops to the shooting.
Police officers found the victim in the back seat of a car in Hindby. He was rushed to hospital, where he was pronounced dead shortly after.
Following a murder probe, police identified a 12-year-old boy as their prime suspect and took him into custody on Tuesday, according to Sydsvenskan.
The boy, who is not from Malmö, is said to have travelled to the city to carry out the attack, the newspaper reports. He was allegedly given several assassination assignments, with the killing carrying a payment of 250,000 SEK (£20,000), according to Expressen.
Since he is below the age of legal responsibility, the suspect has been taken into care and given legal counsel, court documents show. In Sweden, children under the age of 15 cannot be jailed.
The horror shooting is one of many paid assignments the child assassin, from central Sweden, has allegedly received.
According to the court the suspect was sent to live with his grandmother by social services aged seven.
He is the youngest person to be suspected of committing a fatal shooting in Sweden, local media reports.
The country has been gripped by gang violence and recorded one of the highest numbers of gun deaths in Europe in recent years.
Now, Swedish gangsters are sending hitmen as young as 17 to sunny European hotspots for deadly working holidays where they carry out brutal executions in broad daylight.
In October, we told how a boy of 14 was held on suspicion of attempted murder after six people were injured in Gävle, Sweden, after allegedly opening fire in a busy city centre street.
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