Sweden cries the deadliest shooting while the details of the gun man emerge

The Swedish police said they were still investigating the reason behind the most fatal mass shooting in the country, since local media began to inform details about the gunman.

It was reported that the suspect, appointed in reports such as the 35 -year -old local man Rickard Andersson, was a former school student in Obebo, a city of 157 km (98 miles) west of Stockholm, where the attack took place on Tuesday .

Eleven people died in the shooting, including the attacker, with at least six other wounds.

The attack has sent shock waves through the nation, with King Carl XVI Gustaf on Wednesday saying: “Every Sweden is mourning.”

The authorities have not published details about the dead and injured. Health officials said three women and two men were in a critical but stable condition, while another woman was treated by minor injuries.

Police refused to confirm media reports appoint Andersson as a suspect. Orebro police said they had identified the suspect but that “he would not publish his name yet, due to the investigation.”

They have not said how he died, but they indicated on Wednesday that he had probably committed suicide after a fire exchange with the police.

Police said they were still investigating why the gunman had chosen to attack the Adult Educational Center of Risbergska. The Swedish newspaper Actonbladet reported that the suspect previously enrolled in school, but had not attended classes since 2021.

Police said Tuesday that the suspect had no apparent links with gangs and that it did not seem to be motivated by ideology.

Nor do they believe that the attack has been motivated by terrorism.

“We are going to return to the reasons,” said local police chief Roberto Eid Forest to journalists on Wednesday.

The suspect had no previous convictions and obtained his weapon legally, local media reported.

The public station of Sweden SVT suggested that it was a hunting weapon, while the Swedish radio said the police had listed the arms as an automatic firearm.

The local police chief, Mr. Forest, also defended the delay of the authorities in the release of precise information about the number of deaths and injured. He said that the size of the school’s facilities had led to delays to ensure that there were no more victims.

Police said they were using digital footprints, dental records and DNA to identify the victims, along with interviews with family members.

In addition to providing Swedish language classes for immigrants, the Risbergska Center also provided adult education for people over 20 who did not finish primary or secondary school.

Previously, Obro residents attended a vigil in the light of candles outside the educational center, which remains cordoned off. The flags around Obebro and in government buildings, Parliament and royal palaces throughout the country were also reduced at half -mast.

King Carl XVI Gustaf, who visited the campus on Wednesday with Queen Silvia, told reporters: “Every Sweden feels that this traumatic event has experienced.”

“All Swedes are thinking about those who lost their loved ones,” the king told the BBC. He said he was “sure that the country would overcome the tragedy … in one way or another, but it will take time.”

Prime Minister Ulf Kristerson, who also visited the site on Wednesday, described Tuesday’s attack as a dark day in Swedish history.

“Together, we must help the injured and their relatives to endure the pain and weight of this day,” he said.

Additional reports by Johanna Chisholm in London