Three men in their 20s were given long prison conditions in the fatal shooting of award-winning hip-hop artist C Gambino in Gothenburg last year.
Cambino, Karar Ramadan, was named the 2023 hip-hop artist at the Swedish Grammis Music Award a month before his murder.
All three men were found guilty of supporting and promoting murder, two of whom were spared from the murder. A Gothenburg court held that it cannot be established beyond reasonable doubt that it had fired a fatal shot.
No gun was found that killed C Gambino, and it turns out that the car used in the shooting was later burned out.
The C Gambino murder is linked to a local gangland conflict, but the motive remains a mystery. Prosecutors said there was no evidence to suggest that he is part of the criminal network.
For several years, Sweden’s biggest cities have been plagued by gang violence that has killed dozens of lives involving children recruited to carry out violent attacks.
The 26-year-old rapper was shot dead in June 2024 in a multi-story car park in Gothenburg.
Investigators were unable to find the attacker’s DNA trace, but mapped the movements from the phone during the shooting.
Prosecutors also told Swedish public broadcaster SVT that police were able to use hours of CCTV footage from parking lots and elsewhere.
The video showed the murderer’s car getting into the parking lot more than a week before the shooting, and as C Gambino returned from the gym late in the evening, they waited for hours for the attack to take place.
He was able to raise the alarm, but emergency services that arrived on the scene were unable to use the communication system and had to scream at each other, SVT reported.
The artist passed away in the hospital about an hour later.
In that sentence, the court gave the 22-year-old man a life sentence in prison, while the other two, ages 21 and 20, handed the terms of 15 and 12 and 15 years respectively.
The fourth man, 19, was found guilty of setting a car on fire.
Another gang-related incident ended Wednesday, when a 14-year-old boy committed the charge of shooting a man at his home in the order of one of Sweden’s most infamous gangsters, Foxtrot.
Two other boys were convicted. One prepared a murder in Skurup in southern Sweden. In Sweden, the three face no punishment as they are below the age of criminal liability, at 15 years old.
The victim of the Skull Up murder was targeted as his son refused to attack the Foxtrot gang.
According to Swedish radio, police in Iraqi Kurdistan arrested a key figure in the Foxtrot Gang.
The suspect is said to be close to gang leader Rawa Majid, and is linked to many murders in Sweden, including the shooting of Skurup.
