Swedish newspapers have named Anton Lundin Pettersson as the 21-year-old man responsible for attacking a Swedish school in Trollhattan, killing one student and one teacher. The assailant was shot by police twice and later died in the hospital.
Police said that they had identified the suspect earlier in the day, but had withheld his name until recently. Only the Swedish newspapers are naming Anton Lundin-Pettersson, police have not.
Following the attack, police searched his house and found “interesting” things. It’s being reported that he was not in favor of rising immigration in the area and that he was very “far right.” Anton was not previously known to police before today.
Eyewitnesses at the school say that the suspect was wearing a Star Wars mask was carrying a sword, and playing Halloween-type music, so they thought it must be a Halloween costume. Allegedly he even posed with students for a photo.
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[Editor’s Note: That looks less like a Star Wars mask and more like a Nazi helmet with a paintball mask, but that’s neither here nor there. Anton’s Facebook pages and YouTube pages are rife with neo-Nazi propoganda and symbolism.]
That was when a teacher came over and told the stranger that he had to leave because he was scaring the children. Eyewitnesses then say that’s when he stabbed the teacher with a knife, and they knew it wasn’t a prank.
Here’s the story one student told TheLocal.
I was in a classroom with my class when one of my classmates’ sisters called her to warn her that there was a murderer at the school. So we locked the door to the classroom, but our teacher was still outside in the corridor.
We wanted to warn him, so a few of us went outside and then I saw the murderer, he was wearing a mask and had a sword. Our teacher got stabbed.
The murderer started chasing me, I ran into another classroom. If I had not run, I would have been murdered. I’m feeling really scared. Everyone’s scared here.
Police arrived on the scene in the Trollhattan school to find that one teacher had already been killed, and that two other students and one teacher had been seriously wounded. One of those students died in the hospital. The police then confronted NAME and shot him twice in the lower chest.
Unlike the United States, Sweden does not have history of violence in their schools.
