Swedish Teen Rapper Killed In Stockholm Shooting
Fahad Shabbir (@FahadShabbir) Published October 22, 2021 | 02:18 PM
Swedish rapper Einar, who won awards and topped charts in the Scandinavian country, was shot and killed late Thursday in Stockholm, police and media said as police hunted for suspects
Stockholm, (APP - UrduPoint / Pakistan Point News - 22nd Oct, 2021 ) :Swedish rapper Einar, who won awards and topped charts in the Scandinavian country, was shot and killed late Thursday in Stockholm, police and media said as police hunted for suspects.
The 19-year-old Einar, who raps in Swedish, was the most streamed artist on Spotify in Sweden in 2019.
He was shot several times outside an apartment building shortly before 11 pm (2100 GMT). Ambulance personnel administered first aid but he died at the scene, Stockholm police spokeswoman Towe Hagg told AFP.
Police have opened a murder investigation.
"We are actively working to figure why it happened and who can be behind it," Hagg said.
In line with usual practice, police have not yet confirmed the identity of the victim. But Sweden's main media outlets all identified him as rapper Einar, whose full name is Nils Kurt Erik Einar Gronberg.
Many of Einar's songs reference a life of crime, including drugs and weapons. He had public feuds with rival artist Yasin, who in July was jailed for 10 months for his role in a 2020 kidnapping of Einar.
Einar starting posting songs to social media as a young teenager and had his breakthrough in 2019, when he released the song "Katten i trakten" (The cat in the area), which made it to number one on the Swedish singles chart.
He won several music awards, including Swedish Grammys.
Sweden has in recent years struggled to combat rising shootings and bombings by gangs and organised crime.
"It is a young life that has been lost, and I understand that he meant a lot to many young people. It's tragic that another life has been lost," Prime Minister Stefan Lofven on Friday told news agency TT.
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