A 39-year-old Pole was fatally shot following a confrontation with a group of youths in the Swedish capital on Wednesday evening.
The man's nationality was confirmed by his brother-in-law to PAP on Thursday.
Speaking at the crime scene, Swedish Prime Minister Ulf Kristersson said on Thursday: "It's a kind of inhumane, an animalistic attitude. We just can't have this."
He added: "I have talked to many people here today and many feel strong sadness, despair but also a tremendous anger actually."
Kristersson laid flowers at the site of the shooting and spent a long time speaking with the family of the killed Polish man.
“I wanted to meet with the family and show respect, but also to listen to what they have been through, what they think, and how they feel now,” he was quoted as saying.
Kristersson also pledged to take action against youth gangs running rampant in the Swedish capital.
The incident occurred as the Polish man and his 12-year-old son were en route to a swimming pool in the Skarholmen district of Stockholm.
Reports suggest they encountered a group of youths in an underpass, leading to a verbal exchange between the man and the teenagers. The situation escalated, resulting in a fatal gunshot that took the man's life, witnessed by his own son.
The murder has shaken Sweden. At the location where the Pole was killed people were laying flowers and lighting candles, the PAP news agency reported.
The incident underscores the escalating crime problem that Sweden is facing, according to PAP.
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Source: PAP, euronews