A 15-year-old teenager died and three other people were injured in a shooting that occurred on Saturday in Stockholm, according to information from the Police, who arrested two suspects shortly after. Police have opened a preliminary investigation for murder and attempted murder.

The shooting occurred in a mall in Farsta, a district on the southern outskirts of the Swedish capital. The dead teenager was hit by several shots, according to the Swedish newspaper ‘Aftenbladet’, and died shortly after as a result of his injuries, while the rest of the wounded were airlifted to nearby hospitals.

One of the people injured is another teenager of the same age, while two other people, aged 40 and 65, received bullet wounds in the vicinity of the shopping center, one of them in a church and another in an outdoor area.

The event occurred late Saturday afternoon and, according to eyewitness reports to said newspaper, it was a mass shooting. Panic scenes erupted among families in or around the mall, with some running for shelter in a nearby subway station.

Immediately afterwards, the area was cordoned off, while a pursuit began with the intervention of several police vehicles, until the arrest approximately one hour later of a car that was driving at full speed, in which the two suspects were traveling. The two detainees are men in their 20s..

The car in which they were traveling was seized and will undergo a technical review. Growing crime and the actions of criminal gangs or clans are among the top concerns of Swedish citizens. So far this year there have already been in Sweden 144 shootings52 of which in Stockholm or surroundings, according to the aforementioned Swedish newspaper.