Swedish police arrest man over shootings
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November 8, 2010, Monday
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POLICE have arrested a man on suspicion of shooting at people with immigrant backgrounds in a yearlong rampage in Sweden's third largest city, officials said yesterday.
Investigators didn't give any details on the suspect other than saying he was a 38-year-old Swede, held a gun license and had no criminal record.
He was taken into custody at his home in the southern city of Malmo on Saturday and arrested after questioning on suspicion of one murder and seven attempted murders since October 2009, police spokesman Borje Sjoholm said. The suspect denied the allegations, he said.
Malmo police have previously said they believe a lone gunman is responsible for more than a dozen unsolved shootings in which one person died and several were wounded since October 2009.
The victims? nearly all with immigrant backgrounds? have been shot at bus stops, in their cars and through the window of a gym.
"The reason we became interested in this man was tip-offs from the public," Sjoholm said. "Then we collected information about him and made a few interrogations. Yesterday we thought we had enough to arrest him."
Police called the suspect on his phone and asked him to step outside his home, Sjoholm said. The suspect did so and didn't resist arrest.
Sjoholm said the suspect had a gun license and that two weapons were seized during a raid at his home.
Police are now questioning the man, who has denied committing any crime, he added.
While investigators won't speculate on the motive, Swedish media have drawn parallels to a racist gunman who terrorized immigrants in Stockholm in the early 1990s. Dubbed "the laser-man" because of the laser sight he used in some of the shootings, John Ausonius evaded capture for nearly a year. Once caught, he was convicted of one murder and nine attempted murders and is now serving a life sentence at a high-security prison.
Investigators didn't give any details on the suspect other than saying he was a 38-year-old Swede, held a gun license and had no criminal record.
He was taken into custody at his home in the southern city of Malmo on Saturday and arrested after questioning on suspicion of one murder and seven attempted murders since October 2009, police spokesman Borje Sjoholm said. The suspect denied the allegations, he said.
Malmo police have previously said they believe a lone gunman is responsible for more than a dozen unsolved shootings in which one person died and several were wounded since October 2009.
The victims? nearly all with immigrant backgrounds? have been shot at bus stops, in their cars and through the window of a gym.
"The reason we became interested in this man was tip-offs from the public," Sjoholm said. "Then we collected information about him and made a few interrogations. Yesterday we thought we had enough to arrest him."
Police called the suspect on his phone and asked him to step outside his home, Sjoholm said. The suspect did so and didn't resist arrest.
Sjoholm said the suspect had a gun license and that two weapons were seized during a raid at his home.
Police are now questioning the man, who has denied committing any crime, he added.
While investigators won't speculate on the motive, Swedish media have drawn parallels to a racist gunman who terrorized immigrants in Stockholm in the early 1990s. Dubbed "the laser-man" because of the laser sight he used in some of the shootings, John Ausonius evaded capture for nearly a year. Once caught, he was convicted of one murder and nine attempted murders and is now serving a life sentence at a high-security prison.
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