Rickard Andersson

Swedish media have named the Örebro attacker as Rickard Andersson, 35

According to Swedish channel TV4 reports he have been unemployed for more than 10 years and attended a special class for people with Asperger's and high-functioning autism in the same school.

Andersson went on to study an individual programme before attending a special class for people with Asperger's and high-functioning autism at Wadkoping Education Centre in Örebro.

He passed in aesthetic activities and history but failed in all other subjects. The Andersson was unknown to police before the shooting, and the police said they did not find links between him and any gangs or groups. 

Rickard Andersson had licenses to keep 4 guns

A hunting weapon for which he had a licence was found next to his body at the scene of the attack on Tuesday.

In an update day later, police said the Andersson appears to have shot himself - and added they are still unclear on the motive.

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There were 296 shootings in Sweden in 2024, which resulted in the deaths of 44 people and injuries to 66 people, police data shows.

The record for the highest number of shootings was in 2022 when 391 shootings took place across Sweden. Some 62 people died and 107 were injured during that year.

There have also been some recent incidents of violence at schools in Sweden. In March 2022, a student, 18, stabbed and killed two teachers in Sweden’s city of Malmo.

In October 2015, a man stabbed a teacher and student to death in a school with a high number of immigrants in the industrial city of Trollhattan. The man, identified by Swedish media as 21-year-old Anton Lundin Pettersson, was reported to have far-right sympathies and was shot dead by police.