Three young people who were killed in alleged gang shots in Sweden

April 30 (Upi) – A masked shooter opened the fire in a hairdressing salon in a Swedish university that killed three young people in an obvious gangland hit.

In a press release on Wednesday, the Swedish public prosecutor said that a 16-year-old boy was arrested in Stockholm with a likely reason for murder suspicions in connection with the shootout in Uppsala, 40 miles northwest of the capital.

The suspect, who is under Swedish law, was arrested in his house at midnight, said chief attorney Andreas Nyberg, who heads the investigation.

“An intensive examination is underway. We are currently collecting information and the police conduct inquiries from door to door and testify to interviews,” he said.

Nyberg said that mobile phones and other confiscated evidence were also analyzed.

The authorities have until Saturday when they have to cover the suspect in custody or release it.

The Swedish broadcaster SVT reported that the incident in the late Tuesday afternoon in the Shalom Barber Shop on Vaksala Square in the city center could have been a gang relationship because one of the victims was examined because he had planned an attack on a family member of a gang leader.

The police blocked the city overnight, including the disturbance of all outgoing trains, after the shootout and arrested in the early Wednesday. The police said a press conference that the suspect was one of several people who were interviewed as part of the investigation and that there were no other suspects, that there could be no other suspects that could change this.

“We are doing a high level of intensity,” said Erik Akerlund, police chief of Uppsala, Uppsala, the chief of police from Uppsala

He said the police had not yet identified the three deceased people, but confirmed that they were between 15 and 20 years old and that the officials were in contact with relatives who fear that they are their family members.

“We do not see a clear connection between the incident and the hairdressing salon itself. But we have an idea of ​​who the victims are and we are working on the fact that we are based on possible retaliation,” said Akerlund.

The incident came on the eve of the Walpurgis Night Festival, known as “last April”, in the city, which will later take 100,000 night owls on the street on Wednesday.

The police said the event would continue as planned, albeit with increased security.

“We focus strongly on measures to create security,” said ASA Larsson, local police chief of Uppsala/Knivsta. “We understand that this is experienced with great concern. It is a terrible event that happened in Uppsala.”

In February, at least 10 people were killed in a mass shooting in an adult education facility in Orebro, 125 miles west of Stockholm. The shooter died at the scene, probably from a self -inflicted shot after exchanging fire with the police. It was the worst mass shooting in the country's history.