TROLLHATTAN, Sweden (AP) — It was a racially motivated, carefully planned rampage, police say. The 21-year-old masked man marched through a Swedish school with a sword and a knife, methodically selecting his victims. Within minutes, two people had been stabbed to death and two others seriously wounded before the attacker was fatally shot by police.
Swedish police on Friday labeled Thursday's stabbing attack in Trollhattan a hate crime based on discoveries they made when searching the man's home, the way he dressed, his behavior at the scene and the way he selected his victims.
The southern industrial town has a large immigrant population among its 56,000 people and most students at Kronan school, where the attack took place, are foreign-born.
Sweden's last school attack was in 1961, when a 17-year-old opened fire at a school dance in the southwest, wounding seven students, one of whom died later.
