Eighteen-year-old Mohammed Khalid Mohammed has been sentenced by the Huddinge Court near Stockholm to 14 years in prison for murdering 39-year-old Polish national Mikael (Michał) in April 2024, witnessed by his teenage son.
“This was a complicated case where the court had to resolve many issues,” emphasized judge Anders Larsson.
The victim, 39-year-old Mikael, was shot dead on April 10, 2024, in an underpass in Stockholm’s Skarholmen district as he rode his bicycle with his 12-year-old son to the swimming pool. There he encountered a group of young men, including Mohammed, and had presumably confronted them.
The court found that DNA traces discovered on the murder weapon, a modified starting pistol, belonged to Mohammed. The defendant testified that he had only fired warning shots and denied committing the murder. “These explanations are not credible,” concluded the judge.
Mohammed was under 18 at the time of the shooting. Under Swedish law, the maximum sentence available in such cases is 14 years imprisonment. Had the perpetrator been an adult at the time, he would have faced a life sentence.
Additionally, Mohammed was convicted for illegal possession of firearms and two counts of attempted murder. He had been known to the police since he was 13 years old and was a member of a local gang known as the “Skarholmen phalanx.”
Three other young men were sentenced to juvenile detention, community service, and probation supervision for assisting Mohammed in hiding from authorities.
The case of Mikael, who had previously exhibited commendable civic behavior, deeply moved Swedish society. A demonstration was held at the crime scene, and a fundraiser was organized to support the victim’s son. Politicians have reaffirmed the government’s uncompromising stance against crime.