In their investigation into the country’s bloodiest mass shooting, Swedish police reported on Friday that they had spoken with about 1,000 people and were still working to determine the motivation.
Rickard Andersson, 35, visited the Campus Risbergska adult education center in Orebro on February 4 and shot ten people before killing himself.
Police have had difficulty determining a clear motive in the two months that have passed.
In a statement released on Friday, police reported that they had conducted around 1,000 interviews and that, although the first month of the investigation was devoted to information collecting, the current focus was on analyzing the vast amount of material that was available.
“We are mapping the suspect’s life as much as possible to understand him, find his motivation and rule out other perpetrators. We also look at his finances and digital traces as in any other case,” said police operation commander Henrik Dahlstrom.
“This is important in order to find a motive or to the extent possible be able to find a motive.
Police issued a warning in late February that they might never be able to determine the gunman’s exact motivation.
They stated at the time that they were investigating the gunman’s activities in the last hours prior to the shooting.
The offender was spotted inside the educational facility at 10:00 am, approximately two hours before to the shooting starting, according to police, who said they were able to fill in the blanks on Friday.
According to the police, Andersson had a hunting license for four firearms and no past criminal history.
The victims’ foreign origins were quickly revealed when their names and images appeared in Swedish publications and on social media, raising concerns among the nation’s immigrants even though the police have not formally named them.
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