Oumar's son was on his way home from football training in October 2021 when he was shot outside his gate in Farsta in southern Stockholm.
The eight shots hit him in the back, arm and leg.
At the same time, a man in his 40s was shot dead.
According to police and prosecutors, none of the victims were the intended targets.
The son survived but was seriously injured.
Several of the bullets remain in his body and the incident created a great trauma.
- I thought that one bullet is enough to kill a person, my son was shot with several shots.
I had no hope.
I thought he was dead, says Oumar.
"Difficult to take in"
His son is far from the only one.
During the years 2020 and 2021, 18 outsiders were affected by the gangs' violence, according to preliminary figures from the police according to SVT Nyheter.
The figures are not yet certain.
Between 2011 and 2020, 46 people were injured or killed by gross violence directed at the wrong targets, according to a previous survey.
- It is completely insane.
It's hard to take in how completely innocent people are affected by this violence, says Oscar Hillmann, the son's attorney.
Outsiders may have been victims
In the recent wave of violence in Stockholm, the police are looking at several cases where outsiders without gang connections may have been affected.
- It is something we have with us and look at carefully.
We absolutely believe that it can be so, says Åsa Hansson, police commissioner and head of the investigation unit for serious crimes that handles the cases connected to the wave of violence in Stockholm.
As the perpetrators are getting younger and younger, the police believe that the risk of outsiders being affected is increasing.
- We see that they receive assignments from the elderly, serious criminals and they receive bad directives and information.
So when the perpetrators get younger and younger, we run a higher risk of innocent victims, says Åsa Hansson.