Young man killed two at a Swedish school

[mapuc]

– shot dead by police

The writing below is a copy from aftonbladet.se English version

"
At least three people have been killed after an attack at a school in the Swedish city of Trollhättan.
One of those who has been confirmed dead is the attacker. The other two is a teacher and a minor.
Several others are now being treated in hospital

It was just after 10 A.M Thursday the police got an alarm from the school ”Kronan” in Trollhättan.
A masked man, later identified as a 21-year old male, was attacking teachers and students at the school.
The man was carrying several knife like weapon, one of which has been described as a sword.
Male teacher killed

When the police arrived on the scene they found a male teacher dead just inside the doors to the school.
Another male teacher was found wounded as well as two boys, aged 11 and 15. They are now being treated in hospital.
When the police entered the school they were attacked by the masked man.

Shot by police

He was then shot by the police.
– Two shots was fired. One hit its target and disarmed the man, said police spokesperson Thomas Fuxborg.
The attacker was being treated at the hospital, but died in the afternoon.
Later in the afternoon, police struck against a residence building in Trollhättan.
”Thought it was a joke”

About 400 kids are studying at the school. One of the students told the Swedish network SVT about how they reacted when the swordsman attacked.
– When we first saw him we thought it was a joke. He was wearing a mask and black clothes and was carrying a long sword. Students wanted to take pictures with him, said Laith, 14, to the network.
When the news about the attack broke, Sweden's prime minister, Stefan Löfven, immediately cancelled his appointments for the day and went to Trollhättan.
Skolverket, Sweden's National Agency for Education, said that attacks like these are very uncommon in Sweden. "

Markus

[Oberon]

Suggestion: Let's keep this thread to expressing condolences to family of the two who have died in this incident.

I'll start.

This is a terrible incident and I express my condolences to the family of the two people who have died and my hope that those injured can make a full and swift recovery.

[Dowly]

Very tragic.

[Buddahaid]

Tragic indeed and I'll save my other remarks for another day.

[Rockstar]

Whats on the list to ban and control today? Heck, lets just take it to the inevitable and start locking people up in rubber rooms at birth, for their own good of course.

Maybe we need a new thread, "Edged weapons control".

[Oberon]

Originally Posted by Rockstar

Whats on the list to ban and control today? Heck, lets just take it to the inevitable and start locking people up in rubber rooms at birth, for their own good of course.

Maybe we need a new thread, "Edged weapons control".

[Skybird]

Originally Posted by Rockstar

Whats on the list to ban and control today? Heck, lets just take it to the inevitable and start locking people up in rubber rooms at birth, for their own good of course.

Maybe we need a new thread, "Edged weapons control".

Sssshhht, many friends and relatives of the victims in here, don't step on their toes so carelessly!

Just saying, as a former sword-owner myself.

[Aktungbby]

Originally Posted by Rockstar

Maybe we need a new thread, "Edged weapons control".

Originally Posted by Skybird

Sssshhht, many friends and relatives of the victims in here, don't step on their toes so carelessly!

Just saying, as a former sword-owner myself.

let's stay 'well tempered' here shall we? psst! actor Scott Forbes: Forbes was born in High Wycombe, Buckinghamshire. He attended Repton, and then studied Philosophy, Politics, and Economics at Balliol College, Oxford. He worked for the Ministry of Defence before settling on a performing career. IMHO he is to Jim Bowie what Errol Flynn is to Robin Hood!

[Jeff-Groves]

Originally Posted by Skybird

don't step on their toes so carelessly!

Why not?
You think any comments about things in the U.S.A. don't step on toes or offend family or friends of victims?
No. I guess not.
After all it is an InterNational forum where you demand your say but ask us to not speak out when it concerns you Over the Ponders.
Get a grip!

Originally Posted by Jeff-Groves

Why not?
You think any comments about things in the U.S.A. don't step on toes or offend family or friends of victims?
No. I guess not.
After all it is an InterNational forum where you demand your say but ask us to not speak out when it concerns you Over the Ponders.
Get a grip!

#sarcasm

[Jeff-Groves]

Originally Posted by Nippelspanner

#sarcasm

# astute observation

[Buddahaid]

Originally Posted by Jeff-Groves

# astute observation

I prefer to stay classy and leave that ball in the other court.

[Jimbuna]

Tragic, the only positive being he won't be harming anyone else again.

[mapuc]

According to aftonbladet.se the police and others who has investigated his background can't find anything that made him do this terrible things

As some one said-Thousands of young men listen to that kind of music and read stuff and watch the same kind of clips and they do not harm a living thing.

So they are so to say confused to what made him do this.

I'm not a psychiatrist I can only say something must have made his brain go berserk

[Buddahaid]

A brain tumor perhaps, too many Big Macs, or maybe he was just a time bomb.

I found it strange that in the photo of him I saw he's wearing a stahlhelm and the article says Darth Vader mask. I saw that helm and said to myself he's a Nazi instantly yet that is somehow a news revelation a day later.