UPPSALA
\nSwedish police have arrested a suspect in a shooting that killed three young men at a hair salon, authorities said on Wednesday, amid heightened nerves over gun violence in the Scandinavian nation.
\nTuesday\u2019s shooting took place in broad daylight, a day before the Valborg or Walpurgis spring festival which draws more than 100,000 people to the city for celebrations, many of them students.
\n\u201cOne person has been arrested suspected of murder,\u201d police commander Erik Akerlund told a press conference a day after the shooting in the city of Uppsala, 60 kilometers (37 miles) north of Stockholm, that shocked Sweden.
\nSwedish media reported that at least one of the dead had connections to organized gang crime, though police would not confirm those reports.
\nThe Scandinavian country has struggled for years to rein in shootings and bombings between rival gangs.
\nAkerlund said several people \u201cconsidered of interest in the investigation\u201d had been brought in for questioning.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
UPPSALA Swedish police have arrested a suspect in a shooting that killed three young men at a hair salon, authorities said on Wednesday, amid heightened nerves over gun violence in the Scandinavian nation. Tuesday\u2019s shooting took place in broad daylight, a day before the Valborg or Walpurgis spring festival which draws more than 100,000 people […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":475591,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-475689","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-world"},"yoast_head":"\n