Two 16-year-olds charged with double murder in Oslo and Norrköping
Two 16-year-old boys are charged with murder in Oslo and Norrköping – committed within four days in spring. Both deny the charges.
Double murder in four days – teenagers charged with both killings
Two young men were shot dead in Oslo and Norrköping within the course of four days in spring. Now two 16-year-old boys are charged with carrying out both murders, according to gp.se reporting on a statement from the Prosecution Authority.
The charged boys are based in another part of Sweden. Two further boys are charged with aiding and abetting murder and aggravated weapons offence in connection with the incident in Norrköping.
The murder in north-western Oslo was committed on 26 April, near a football pitch. The victim was a man in his 20s who was struck by several shots to the head, neck and back and died later at hospital, according to Norwegian broadcaster NRK. Norwegian police state in the charge that the crime was committed within a "criminal environment".
Four days later, on Walpurgis Night at 21:00, a man in his 20s was shot in the head in Norrköping.
The boys are assessed to have had no personal connection to the victims and are believed to have been hired by others to carry out the murders. Both 16-year-olds "acknowledge the course of events" but deny the charges, according to the prosecution.
Source: Google News SE — Crime (sv)