Sweden school shooting latest: New details about suspect emerge as Elon Musk shares lies about attack response
The gunman who massacred 10 people at a school campus in Örebro has been identified as 35-year-old Rickard Andersson by Swedish media.
Details continue to emerge about Andersson, who reportedly changed into green military gear in a school toilet before carrying out the shooting at Risbergska School, then turning the gun on himself.
Relatives described Andersson to Aftonbladet as an unemployed recluse who lived a solitary life. He had reportedly been jobless for the past decade.
Andersson had received a licence for four hunting rifles, and documents from the Swedish National Service Agency show he had been told repeatedly he was not eligible for military service after he came of age, it added.
A police source confirmed the name to Reuters news agency.
Meanwhile, Elon Musk was slammed after reposting an online lie about the global response to the shooting.
Right wing account Inevitable West claimed on X, owned by Musk, that “no European politician” had mentioned the massacre and that the legacy media had been “silent”.
But Musk’s very own community notes feature pulled up the lie, with X users pointing out that dozens of news outlets and senior politicians from across the continent had addressed the shooting.
