Anton Lundin Pettersson, 21, attacked Kronan School in Trollhättan, Sweden, with a sword. He killed a teaching assistant and a male student, stabbed another male student and a teacher, and died later of the gunshot wounds he received during his apprehension. It was Sweden’s first deadly attack on a school since the 1961 Kungälv school shooting when one person was killed and six injured.
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Anton Lundin Pettersson, 21, attacked Kronan School in Trollhättan, Sweden, with a sword. He killed a teaching assistant and a male student, stabbed another male student and a teacher, and died later of the gunshot wounds he received during his apprehension. The second teacher who was wounded died in the hospital six weeks after the attack, on 3 December. It was Sweden’s first deadly attack on a school since the 1961 Kungälv school shooting when one person was killed and six injured. The initial police investigation concluded that Petersson was motivated by racism and had chosen the school as his target due to its location in a neighbourhood with a high immigrant population.
Police cited this as more evidence towards his motive. Former classmates described the perpetrator as a lonely person who always dressed in black clothes influenced by the emo or scene scene scene. He had visited right-wing extremist groups at social media sites supporting Adolf Hitler and Nazi Germany. He also joined a group on Facebook that wants to stop immigration to Sweden. He left a handwritten note at his home in which he declared that something had to be done about immigration, and that he did not expect to survive his spree. He was not a member of any political organisation, but supported a petition by the Sweden Democrats to initiate a referendum on immigration.
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