Sweden - Five people shot at school, Örebro, 4th Feb 2025


Everything points towards a typical loner attack'​

Following that news conference by police, we've just heard from Katrin Kantz, a crime reporter for national Swedish newspaper Expressen.

She tells presenter Jonathan Samuels more about the attacker, who police say was not known to them prior to the shooting.

"He has no prior record," she says. "He's not known by the police in any way.

"There is some information that he might have had a licence for a gun, but we're not sure of that.

"He has no criminal record whatsoever. Everything points at a typical loner attack."
 

This is now the deadliest mass shooting in Swedish history.
 
Many times these lone attacks are injustice collectors who believe in nothing but their own 'superiority' but will latch on to an ideal that they could seriously care less about, just to make it look as if they stand for something; and in doing so will cause harm to other innocent people.
From what little we know so far, this attack reminds me of Anders Brevik.
Just my .02.
 

"We know that 10 or so people have been killed here today. The reason that we can't be more exact currently is that the extent of the incident is so large," local police chief Roberto Eid Forest told a news conference.
The shooting took place in Orebro, some 200 km (125 miles) west of Stockholm, at the Risbergska school for adults who did not complete their formal education or failed to get the grades to continue to higher education. It is located on a campus that also houses schools for children.
Police said it was still going through the crime scene and had searched several addresses in Orebro after the attack.

Late on Tuesday, police vans and personnel were still outside an apartment building in central Orebro that had been raided earlier.
Many students in Sweden's adult school system are immigrants seeking to improve basic education and gain degrees to help them find jobs in the Nordic country while also learning Swedish.

Sweden has been struggling with a wave of shootings and bombings caused by an endemic gang crime problem that has seen the country of 10 million people record by far the highest per capita rate of gun violence in the EU in recent years.

However, fatal attacks at schools are rare.
 

About 10 people, including the gunman, were killed on Tuesday at an adult education centre in what Sweden's prime minister called the country's "worst mass shooting." A final death toll and conclusive number of wounded haven't yet been determined.

[snip]

The damage at the crime scene was so extensive that investigators were unable to be more definitive, said Roberto Eid Forest, head of the local police.
The shooting erupted after many students had gone home following a national exam. Police vehicles and ambulances, lights flashing, blanketed the parking lots and streets around the school as a helicopter buzzed overhead.

Teacher Lena Warenmark told SVT News that there were unusually few students on the campus Tuesday afternoon after the exam. She also told the broadcaster that she heard probably 10 gunshots.
 
I wonder if it had anything to do with the exam itself, if he felt he failed and it was a trigger or the last straw. Being very few people left on campus after the test doesn’t feel fully premeditated to me.. jmo.

Praying for peace to all of the thousands of people affected by this heinous tragedy. :(
 
I wonder if it had anything to do with the exam itself, if he felt he failed and it was a trigger or the last straw. Being very few people left on campus after the test doesn’t feel fully premeditated to me.. jmo.

Praying for peace to all of the thousands of people affected by this heinous tragedy. :(

Why bring a gun along if it's not premeditated?
 
Precisely! Sweden is not the type of place where people randomly wander about with firearms.

We have really no idea about what's gone on yet. Lots more will come out in the next day or so. It definitely wasn't a spur of the moment thing, though.
I am over 60 and have never seen a real gun
 
11 dead might be more. Source:svd.se

6 people are at the hospital. Nothing specific on their condition but a warning of ”there might be more deaths” indicates it might be critical for some, regrettably.

Praying for the 6.
 
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The Swedish police are armed, though. On the occasions I've been there I'm sure I've seen private security guards armed. In fact I know I have because they were carrying Sig pistols of some model or other and I've owned them previously.
I know the police are armed, my brother in law was one and also a hunter, never saw any weapons, guess he knew the law of saftey rules.
 
The Swedish police are armed, though. On the occasions I've been there I'm sure I've seen private security guards armed. In fact I know I have because they were carrying Sig pistols of some model or other and I've owned them previously.
I don't live in Sweden but I live in a different european country, with a vastly different culture and different issues/problems than Sweden and our police doesn't walk around brandishing their guns, it's secured properly at the waist, we know the guns are there and we can see where they should go but they're not waving it around for everyone to see. Generally speaking, most if not all, european countries don't really have the gun culture, not even close to what the US has so these shootings don't happen much and everyone gets confused how someone even gets their hands on a gun in the first place because a regular person doesn't just own a gun.
 

"My cousin called her and she started crying. She fell to the ground because she was crying so much, she thought what she saw was so terrible. She only saw people lying on the floor, injured, and blood everywhere," Mokdad said.

The attacker has not been identified by authorities. Swedish media reported that he was an unemployed man aged around 35, who had a hunting license.

The school, called Campus Risbergska, offers primary and secondary educational classes for adults age 20 and older, Swedish-language classes for immigrants, vocational training and programs for people with intellectual disabilities. The school is on the outskirts of Orebro, which is about 200 kilometers (125 miles) west of Stockholm

"It is an incredibly tragic event that has affected primarily the victims and their relatives, and affects all of Sweden," local police chief Roberto Eid Forest said in a statement.


"At present, there are 11 deaths due to the incident. The number of injured is still unclear," police added
 
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"Swedish mass shooter who killed ten:

Suspect was

'a loner with extreme social phobia

who always had a hood up and covered his face'.

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Swedish outlet Expressen
shared an image of Rickard Andersson, 35,
who it reported is suspected of shooting ten people dead in a shocking attack at Risbergska School in Örebro's Västhaga district on Tuesday.

The shooter also legally changed his name eight years ago -
a move that took family members by surprise.

'We haven't had much contact with him in recent years.
As a child he was different but lively.
He did well in school',
one relative said.

TV4 claimed the shooter had no previous convictions and was not known to authorities.

He also possessed a firearms license."

 
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