For the two oldest teenagers, aged 18 and 19, the prosecutor demanded a prison sentence.

For the 17-year-old boy who is suspected of both a serious weapon crime and a serious drug crime, the claim was closed juvenile care.

The prosecutor does not currently want to specify how long the sentences can be.

- Closed youth care also applies to one 17-year-old girl, and for the other 17-year-old girl we demand youth monitoring, says Emma Berge.

The three teenage boys deny the crime, but one 17-year-old girl admits that she went to Malmö to take the weapon back to Växjö.

Her friend, also a 17-year-old girl, denies that she picked up the murder weapon in Malmö but admits on the other hand that she kept the weapon at home in a cloth bag.

Does not affect murder investigation

The verdict against the five teenagers will come no later than April 27, and on the same date, charges are expected to be brought against the two men who are in custody on suspicion of the actual shooting death at Araby on September 11, 2021.

How intertwined is the murder weapon investigation with the murder investigation itself?

- We have of course investigated and seen if there is a connection.

There may be things in this investigation that are of interest to the murder investigation and then the documents will be included in that investigation.

But what we have handled here in recent days has concerned the handling of this weapon, no one has been prosecuted for protecting criminals or anything else, says Emma Berge.

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The man was found shot to death on a bicycle path in a residential area in Växjö.

Photo: Kajsa Oscarson / SVT