[ad_1]
In the early afternoon of March, several shots were fired from a rental car in the Kärrtorp district of Stockholm. When the car stopped and the perpetrators opened fire, the 14-year-old boy was hit by bullets in the stomach, hand and hip. He underwent surgery that same night and then had to stay in hospital for three weeks.
A few days later, three men, ages 18, 22 and 23, were arrested. They have now been sentenced by the Södertörn District Court to prison for extremely serious assault and causing danger to others, reports the local newspaper Mitt i.
The 18-year-old is sentenced to prison for 3 years and 6 months and the other two to prison for seven years. The district court finds that he came very close to the 14-year-old dying when the gunshots struck closely, and there was also a risk that the two friends he was walking with that night could also have been hit by the shots.
The reason the men are not convicted of attempted murder for which they were charged is that it is not known for sure which of the three did what in the car, only that one was driving the car, another was looking for the young man from 14 years old and the other held the gun, writes Mitt. in.
The three convicts deny the crime.
