Here’s the latest crime news from Modern Multicultural Sweden. Note that there is no speculation in this report about the ethnicity or immigration status of the perpetrator. So draw your own conclusions.

Many thanks to FouseSquawk for translating this article from B.T.:

Young man in custody for shooting at police residence in Västerås A 20-year-old man is in custody on suspicion for the shooting at a police officer’s residence in Västerås. At least 12 shots pierced the front door of the home where a policeman and his family were sleeping. Prosecutor Anne Sjöblom decided to arrest that man at 8:43pm after a hearing in the evening. The man is arrested as reasonably suspected, the lower level of suspicion, for attempted murder, declare the police to TT [Tidningarnas Telegrambyrå, Swedish national wire service]. According to the police, a second person held for interrogation earlier in the day has been released, but not dropped from the investigation. Two adults and two children were in the shot-up house and lay asleep during the shooting. The shots were so powerful that they passed through the house, and at least one of the shots hit the property behind, a police source said. This means that other persons were also put at risk. In the door alone could be counted at least twelve bullet holes. “There is a great devastation in the house. There are a lot of high caliber cartridges that are outside,” says regional police chief Carin Götblad at a press conference, explaining the night’s events and the police work. The police do not want to say what position the concerned police officer has [in the organization]. “But this is a average, capable police officer who has been exposed. It is extremely serious. It’s clear that nobody should experience this,” she says. She does not want to comment on the type of weapon that was used before the technical examination is complete. “It’s a high caliber weapon; it could be an automatic weapon,” she says. Götblad also does not want to confirm the information that a bullet entered the house behind the shot-up villa. “There is such information, we do not confirm it in this situation, but it’s great devastation, and heavy ammunition,” she says. According to Götblad, the family is now “not at all good” and everyone was home when the deed took place. “They are getting all the support that may be needed.” According to the TT’s source, the police are currently working on the theory that the act was directed at the police authority as a result of the police’s targeted work against serious crime in the region.